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1. What telecommunications providers are subject to the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin’s (Commission) direct and remainder, intrastate telephone relay, and intrastate universal service fund (USF) assessments? The table below depicts assessments as applied to telecommunications providers by the Commission. The Commission has temporarily suspended assessment of CMRS providers for USF purposes from November 2000, through the present time.
1 As provided in Wis. Admin. Code ch. PSC 160, Wisconsin telecommunications providers with intrastate gross telecommunications revenues of less than $200,000 during a previous calendar year are exempt from assessment. Wis. Admin. Code ch. PSC 160 was amended, effective May 1, 2000, to make CMRS providers subject to USF assessments. CMRS includes personal communications services (PCS), cellular, and paging providers. In an order dated December 20, 2001, in docket 05‑GF‑104, the Commission continued a suspension, which was initiated in November 2000, of the USF assessment for CMRS providers. The CMRS USF assessment suspension will continue at least until the Commission completes its review of the USF rules in Wis. Admin. Code ch. PSC 160 (docket 1‑AC‑198). 2 Cable television entities with minimal amounts of telecommunications service revenues per Wis. Stat. § 196.01(1r). This Commission generally does not regulate cable television entities with no telecommunications service revenues. 3 Under Wis. Stat. § 196.203(4), the Commission may impose any provision of Wis. Stat. chs. 196 or 201 on one or more, but not necessarily all, ATUs providing service in a relevant market. 4Including prison pay phone providers (PPP). 5 Including provision of alternative operator service (AOS). The level of regulation shown for direct, remainder, and telephone relay assessments is that for resellers with $200,000 or more of annual assessable revenues, as set forth in Wis. Admin. Code ch. PSC 168. For resellers with less than $200,000 annual revenue, those entities are currently subject to an annual fee. The annual fee is $100, effective January 1, 2001. All resellers, regardless of size, are subject to an initial certification fee upon application to the Commission for authorization to be an ATU‑Reseller. The current initial certification fee is $250. 6 Including alternate exchange carrier (AEC), competitive access provider (CAP), video distance learning (VDL), and other (OTU) providers. Level of regulation shown is that imposed on individual ATU-Other entities by interim order. Rulemaking docket 1‑AC‑186 is reviewing the Commission’s level of regulation for AECs (also known as competitive local exchange companies, or CLECs).
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