Do you want to drastically reduce your USF contribution?

          USF Turnkey Traffic Study for wireless and VoIP Carriers

If you’re a wireless carrier, MVNO, or Interconnected VoIP carrier there’s a great likelihood you are over-contributing into the USF fund. Our USF PIU Study can reduce that cost and save you hundreds of thousands of dollars.

MVNO Case Study Example

Assume a customer base of 12,500 with an average spend of $780.  Here are the results of an actual PIU study.

                                        Using Safe Harbor    Using PIU Study

            Interstate/Int’l Usage:               37.1%                     16%

            Yearly Revenue:                   $9,750,000               $9,750,000

            Multiplied by PIU:                      37.1%                     16%

            USF Contribution:                   $412,367                 $177,840

                                                    You save: $234,527  

Note: If your PIU is 25% you still save over $134,000

The 2006 increase in the safe harbor by 30% (37.1 v. 28.5) wiped out much of the benefit safe harbor offered, replacing it with a revenue drain.  It’s difficult to pass this along to your wireless customers, and if you did you would likely suffer churn.  So why continue?

Using statistical analysis that satisfies both the FCC’s mandated 95% confidence and 1% error rate, our experts will determine the lowest USF contribution rate possible. 

And as an added bonus, the very same data used to reduce your expenses can help you better manage your business—and raise revenues!

 And the USF traffic study will protect you against a USAC audit.

  The FCC and USAC are coming down hard on USF waste, fraud, and abuse and our telecom attorneys are advising their clients to be buttoned up in supporting their 499A's and 499Q's.

Our low-cost turnkey traffic study will satisfy the FCC's 1% error rate and 95% confidence rate standards - and will also tell the federal auditors, "Bother someone else, we can prove our reporting is accurate."

The study can be delivered within a week of receiving your cdr's and at a price you can live with.

To discuss the specifics of the engagement and hear ideas from one of the nation's leading and most recognizable figures in telecom expense management, please call 877.688.2200 contact us here.

In the meantime, you might want to review this recent bulletin from one of our FCC attorneys.  

All firm clients providing wireless or interconnected VoIP services are advised that the Instructions to the 2008 Telecommunications Reporting Worksheet (“2008 Form 499-A Instructions”) requires providers of wireless or interconnected VoIP services relying on “traffic studies,” to determine USF contribution eligible revenues, to submit their traffic studies to USAC and the FCC.  Though established by USAC in the absence of a formal FCC rulemaking proceeding, such Form 499-A “instructions” have, in the past, been given the force and effect of law by the FCC.  Therefore, failure to comply with the traffic study submission requirement is considered a violation of FCC Rules and could subject non-compliant providers to the FCC’s enforcement mechanisms.  

If you have not already done so, you are advised to submit to USAC and the FCC copies of any traffic studies relied upon to determine 2007 revenue, as reported in their 2008 Form 499-As.  Also, please ensure all traffic studies relied upon for determination of the jurisdictional allocation of 2008 revenue are accurate and conform to applicable FCC standards; and to document, retain, and be prepared to submit such traffic studies in the future.

                                           - Jonathan Marashlian, The CommLaw Group