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Examples of Telecommunications Services
 
Examples of Telecommunications Services Subject to Oregon PUC Gross Revenue Fee (ORS 756.310) and Oregon Universal Service (OUS) Surcharge (ORS 759.425)
 
Revised May 2006
 
 
Subject To PUC Fee? Subject To OUS Surcharge?  
 General Information [i]
yes
yes
 Gross Revenue from Any Service Provided Under ORS 759.020, ORS 759.025(1), or ORS 759.050 and Marked As "Yes" Below [ii]
yes
yes
 Gross Revenue from Any Service Provided by a Cooperative or Association as a Competitive Provider Under ORS 759.020 or ORS 759.050 and Marked As "Yes" Below
no
yes
 Gross Revenue from Any Service Provided by a Cooperative or Association as an Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier Under ORS 759.025(2) and Marked As "Yes" Below
yes
yes
 Gross Revenue from Any Service Provided to an Enhanced Service Provider (ESP), Internet Service Provider (ISP), Information Service Provider, or Payphone Provider and Marked As "Yes" Below
yes
yes
 Bundled Services Including Any Service Marked as "Yes" Below (includes minimum usage charges and the flat-rate parts of packages)
no
yes [iii]
 Service Provided to a Radio Common Carrier (RCC)
no
no
 Carrier Billing and Collection (provided under exchange access tariffs)
yes
yes
 Special Billing Arrangements for the Final Customer [iv]
no
no
 Taxes and Surcharges Collected on Behalf of Another Party Other Than Universal Service Fund (USF) Surcharges [v]
yes
yes
 Directory Assistance
yes
no
 Directory Listing and Non-published Charges
yes
yes
 Operator Service
no
no
 Yellow Page Revenues Received by a Cooperative or Competitive Provider (with a certificate of authority issued under ORS 759.020)
yes
no
 Yellow Page Revenues Received by or Imputed to a Telecommunications Utility (an incumbent local exchange carrier with a certificate of authority issued under ORS 759.025(1))
yes
yes
 Bill Number Screening
yes
yes
 Custom Calling Services (includes call following, call forwarding, call screening, call waiting, continuous redial, custom ringing, redialing, speed dialing, three-way calling)
yes
yes
 Custom Local Area Signaling Service (CLASS – includes call blocking, call rejection, call returning, call tracing, caller identification, custom ringing, long distance alert, priority call)
yes
yes
 Direct Inward Dialing (DID)
yes
yes
 Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM)
yes
yes
 Frame Relay
yes
yes
 Hunting
yes
yes
 Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN)
yes
yes
 Market Expansion Line
yes
yes
 Packet Switching
yes
yes
 Remote Call Forward
yes
yes
 Toll Restriction Service
yes
no
 Voice Messaging and Voice Mail
Interexchange, Long Distance & Network Access Services
no
no
 Automatic Number Identification (ANI)
no
no
 Carrier Access Charges [vi]
no
no
 Dark Fiber
no
no
 International Long Distance
no
no
 Interstate Interexchange Private Line
no
no
 Interstate Long Distance
yes
yes
 Intrastate Interexchange Private Line
yes
yes
 Intrastate Long Distance Inward-Only (InWATS)
yes
yes
 Intrastate Long Distance Message (MTS)
yes
yes
 Intrastate Long Distance Outward-Only (OutWATS)
yes
yes
 Intrastate Long Distance Private Line
yes
yes
 Intrastate Personal 800 Service
yes
yes
 Intrastate Teleconferencing
yes
yes
 Intrastate Wide Area Telecommunications Service (WATS)
yes
yes
 Prepaid Calling Cards [vii]
yes
no
 Presubscribed Interexchange Carrier Charge (PICC) Billed to a Final Customer
no
no
 PICC Billed to Another Telecommunications Provider
yes
yes
 Signaling Sold to Final Customer (CLASS – under features & advanced services)
yes
yes
 Special Access Sold to the Final Customer
no
no
 Special Access Sold to Another Telecommunications Provider
yes
no
 Subscriber Line Charge (SLC) Collected from the Final Customer [viii]
yes
yes
 Switched Access Sold to a Final Customer
no
no
 Switched Access Sold to Another Telecommunications Provider
no
no
 Universal Connectivity Charges and National Access Fees
no
no
 Unbundled Network Elements (UNEs) Sold to Another Telecommunications Provider
yes
yes
 Basic Local (includes measured and flat-rate)
yes
yes
 Centrex
no
no
 Extended Area Service (EAS) – IntraLATA Interstate
yes
yes
 EAS – Intrastate
yes
no
 Local Number Portability (LNP) – Final Customer Charge
yes
yes
 Local Private Line
yes
yes
 Nonrecurring Charges for Subject Services (such as connection or one-time charges)
yes
yes
 Property Tax Recovery Charge
yes
yes
 Public Access Line (PAL) [ix]
yes
yes
 Public Telephone Access Service Sold to the Final Customer [x]
yes
yes
 Semi-Public Telephone Access Service Sold to the Final Customer [x]
yes
yes
 Service Sold to a Payphone Owner [x]
no
no
 Access Fee Charged to the Final Customer for Dial-Around
no
no
 Card or Coin Telephone Service Sold to the Final Customer
yes
yes
 Prepaid Calling Cards [vii]
yes
yes
 Public Access Line (PAL) [ix]
yes
yes
 Public Telephone Access Service Sold to the Final Customer [x]
yes
yes
 Semi-Public Telephone Access Service Sold to the Final Customer [x]
yes
yes
 Service Sold to a Payphone Owner [v]
Universal Service Fund (USF), Taxes & Surcharge Collections [v]
no
no
 E 911 and Other Taxes Collected from the Final Customer [xi]
no
no
 Residential Service Protection Funds Collected from Final Customer [xii]
yes
no
 RSPF Distributed through Oregon and Federal Programs
no
no
 Federal USF Charges Collected from the Final Customer
no
yes
 Oregon USF Charges Collected from the Final Customer [xiii]
yes
no
 USF Distributions through Oregon and Federal Programs
Wireless Services [xiv]
no
no [iii]
 When Wireless Service Is Provided by a Radio Common Carrier (RCC) That Is Not Participating in the OUS Fund
no
yes [iii]
 When Wireless Service Is Provided by an RCC That Is Participating in the OUS Fund
no
yes [iii]
 When a Local Exchange Carrier (ILEC or CLEC) Provides Intrastate Retail Telecommunications Services to an RCC That Is Not Participating in the OUS Fund
yes
yes [iii]
 When an ILEC Provides a Wireless Service as a Substitute for Regulated Wireline Service
Other Services & Revenues
no
no
 Alarm Monitoring
no
no
 Answering Service
no
no
 Cable Television
no
no
 Collocation
yes
yes
 Connection Fees and Charges for Subject Services (one-time or nonrecurring charges) [xv]
no
no
 Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)
no
no
 Dividends and Interest
yes
yes
 Early Termination Fees for Subject Services
no
no
 Equipment Charges (installation, maintenance, repair, lease, rental, or sale)
no
no
 Internet Service [xvi]
no
no
 Late Payment Fees and Returned Check Charges
no
no
 Nontelecommunications Services Provided to Affiliated or Other Companies (such as accounting, billing, or computing)
yes
no
 Pole Rentals
no
no
 Rent Received from Affiliated of Other Companies (such as land, buildings, other facilities, or multi-state headquarters adjustments)
 

 
i  For more information about the annual PUC fee, go to PUC's home page and select "Telecommunications," "Forms and Applications," and "Revenue Fee Statement." For more information about OUS, select "Telecommunications" and "Oregon Universal Service."
 
ii  "Gross revenue" means total revenues accrued (billed) before bad debts, nonpayment of accounts receivable, and uncollectibles. See Oregon Administrative Rule (OAR) 860-032-0080.
 
iii  Intrastate telecommunications services (including exchange access arrangements, features, directory assistance, operator services, and interexchange services) provided by a local exchange carrier (LEC) or interexchange carrier (IXC) to a nonparticipating radio common carrier (RCC) in the OUSF are considered retail telecommunications services and, therefore, are subject to the OUSF surcharge. Nonparticipating RCC retail services are not subject to the OUSF surcharge.
 
Exception: If an RCC elects to participate in the OUSF program (i.e., elects to become eligible to receive OUSF support), then the intrastate services provided by the LEC or IXC to an eligible RCC are considered wholesale telecommunications, and thus are not subject to the OUSF surcharge. However, an eligible RCCs retail services are now subject to the OUSF surcharge. See Oregon Revised Statute (ORS) 759.425(7). As of this update, there are no participating RCCs in Oregon.
 
Note: Wireless service provided by a LEC on an incidental basis or as a substitute for regulated wireline service is subject to OUSF surcharge under the exception above.
 
iv  "Final Customer" means an end user or retail customer. Under ORS 756.310, the term includes enhanced service providers, Internet service providers, information service providers, and payphone providers.
 
v  When amounts, including taxes and surcharges, are collected on behalf of another telecommunications provider, the collector is acting as an agent. The collections, which are forwarded to another party, are not the agent's revenues for purposes of the PUC fee and OUS surcharge.
 
vi  Network access revenues are "derived from the provision of exchange access services to an interexchange carrier . . . beyond the exchange carrier's network" (Code of Federal Regulations, Section 32.4999(i)(1)). Access charges paid by the respondent to another carrier are expenses and are not deductible.
 
vii  Prepaid calling card revenues should be reported on OUS 2 worksheet line 17 or 18.
 
viii  See the Commission’s decision about Subscriber Line Charge (SLC) in Order 99-734.
 
ix  PAL revenues should be reported on OUS 2 worksheet line 12.
 
x  Payphone revenues from services sold to final customers and payphone owners should be reported on OUS 2 worksheet line 15.
 
xi  For Emergency 911, see ORS Chapter 401.
 
xii  See OAR Chapter 860, Division 033 for RSPF. All distributions, which are kept by the telecommunications provider, are intrastate revenues for purposes of the PUC fee under OAR 860-032-0080 and the OUS surcharge.
 
xiii  For OUS, see ORS 759.425.
 
xiv  Wireless services include, for example, commercial mobile radio service (CMRS), paging, cellular, Personal Communications Service (PCS), Mobile Telephone Service, and Local Multipoint Distribution System (LMDS).
 
xv  All one-time, nonrecurring, or connection charges are intrastate revenues for purposes of the PUC fee and OUS surcharge.
 
xvi  Internet service providers are final customers of the telecommunications provider for purposes of the PUC fee and OUS surcharge.
 
Page updated: July 23, 2007

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