Oklahoma Administrative Code › Title 165 - Corporation Commission › Chapter 59 - Oklahoma Universal Service and Oklahoma Lifeline › Subchapter 9 - Oklahoma Lifeline Fund › Part 5 - CONTRIBUTIONS AND REIMBURSEMENTS › Section 165:59-9-23 - Amount of contribution

Current through Vol. 41, No. 20, July 1, 2024
(a) The
				  OLF Administrator or contracted agent shall, consistent with
				  165:59-3-40,
				  and based on the adjusted amount to be contributed to the OLF, independently
				  evaluate and calculate the contribution required to be made to the OLF by each
				  contributor, based on the fund level established by the Commission sufficient
				  to recover the costs of administration and payments for Requests for OLF
				  Funding as provided by the Oklahoma Telecommunications Act.
(b) The funding from each contributing
				  provider shall be based on the total intrastate retail Oklahoma Interconnected
				  Voice over Internet Protocol revenues and intrastate telecommunications
				  revenues, from both regulated and unregulated services, of the contributing
				  provider, herein after referred to as assessed revenues, as a percentage of all
				  revenues of the contributing providers, or such other assessment methodology
				  not inconsistent with federal law. Interconnected VoIP services shall be
				  assessed only as provided for in the decision of the Federal Communications
				  Commission, FCC 10-185, released November 5, 2010, or such other assessment
				  methodology that is not inconsistent with federal law.
(c) For Interconnected VoIP services,
				  contributing providers shall, consistent with the methodology of the FCC,
				  identify intrastate retail revenue subject to the OUSF/OLF assessment through
				  1) direct assignment; 2) a company-specific traffic study; or 3) the inverse of
				  the FCC safe harbor calculation, currently 35.1%. A contributing provider must
				  file an application with the Commission and receive approval to utilize any
				  methodology other than the safe harbor calculation.
(d) The fiscal reporting year shall be July 1
				  through June 30.
(e) Each
				  contributing provider shall pay its contribution directly to the OLF
				  Administrator, or contracted agent, as directed by the OLF Administrator, on a
				  monthly or annual basis, conditioned upon an annual revenue threshold
				  established by the OLF Administrator.
(f) If the contributing provider qualifies to
				  pay its contribution annually, payment shall be made at the beginning of the
				  fiscal year, and is past due after August 31. If the contributing provider
				  underestimates its annual contribution by 15% or greater, the contributing
				  provider shall be required to make its contributions monthly for the next
				  fiscal reporting year, and underpayments will be subject to interest.
(g) If the contributing provider qualifies to
				  pay its contribution monthly, the contributing provider shall report the prior
				  calendar month's revenues, and pay on those revenues, by the end of the month,
				  each month, without skipping a month.
(h) Interest shall be charged on any payment
				  not received by the reporting due date at the rate of 1.5% monthly.
(i) The payment shall be payable to the OLF.
				  All contributions and interest payments shall be deposited into the OLF account
				  established by the OLF Administrator and/or contracted agent.
(j) All contributions shall be subject to
				  audit by the OLF Administrator, or its contracted agent.
Added at 15 Ok Reg
					 1195, eff 1-6-98 (emergency); Added at 15 Ok Reg 1915, eff 7-1-98; Amended at
					 16 Ok Reg 2360, eff 7-1-99