FCC Provides Updated Answers on Special Access Data Submission Requirement
The FCC released an update of a document answering dozens of potential questions on the agency’s collection of data on special access service rates. Covered businesses with more than 1,500 employees are required to submit data by Jan. 29, smaller…
Sign up for a free preview to unlock the rest of this article
If your job depends on informed compliance, you need International Trade Today. Delivered every business day and available any time online, only International Trade Today helps you stay current on the increasingly complex international trade regulatory environment.
businesses, by Feb. 27. The FCC warned covered providers and purchasers of special access data that there's a potentially heavy price to pay for not making required submissions by the due date. “Failure to comply with these data reporting requirements may subject parties to monetary forfeitures of up to $160,000 for each violation or each day of a continuing violation, up to a maximum of $1,575,000 for any single act or failure to act that is a continuing violation,” the FCC said Tuesday. The agency said it plans to use the information it receives to do a “comprehensive market analysis that will look at the number [of] special access providers, facilities, service offerings, revenues, and expenditures nationwide in all price cap areas.”