Please be reminded of the upcoming due dates for the Reports
listed below:

OEA Establishes Extended Form 477 Deadlines

The new filing deadline for Form 477 data as of June 30, 2021 is
October 1, 2021 for filers affected by
Hurricane Ida in Louisiana and Mississippi and September 15, 2021
for all other filers.
In light of the Category 4 hurricane that struck the Gulf Coast on
August 29^th, the FCC extended the deadline to October 1,
2021 for the submission of Form 477 data as of June 30, 2021 for
affected filers in Louisiana and Mississippi.
In this context, “affected” filers are those entities
required to file Form 477 that operate facilities, or, in a
significant manner essential to the business operation, rely on
personnel, records, or financial institutions located in the
parishes of Louisiana or the counties of Mississippi that the
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has designated as
eligible for Individual or Public Assistance for the purposes of
federal disaster relief.

Information on how to file Form 477 is available on the
FCC’s Form 477 Resources for Filers webpage at www.fcc.gov/form477.
For Form 477 filing assistance, please call 1-877-480-3201 or
1-717- 338-2824 (tty), or submit an e-support request online at https://esupport.fcc.gov/request.htm

Form 499-Q: Quarterly Telecommunications Reporting
Worksheet

Carriers providing interstate and international telecommunications
that are required to contribute to federal universal service
support mechanisms must report their revenues for each calendar
quarter by filing Form 499-Q with the Universal Service
Administrative Company (USAC) on a quarterly basis.
The next Form 499-Q is due Monday November 1,
2021 and must be submitted electronically using
USAC’s E-File system. A contributor must file a
revised Form 499-Q within 45 calendar days of the November 1
deadline (or the next business day thereafter) if it discovers an
error in the data it reported.
The November Form 499-Q filing covers historical end user revenue
data for July 1 through September 30 of the current year and
projected end user and wholesale data for January 1 through March 1
of the next year. Providers of interconnected Voice over Internet
Protocol service and commercial mobile radio service that rely upon
traffic studies to report their revenues on the Form 499-Q must
submit the traffic studies with the Form 499-Q filing.
Note that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) actively
enforces the Form 499-Q filing and accompanying Universal Service
Fund (USF) contribution requirement, and may impose monetary
penalties for failure to file or make timely USF
contributions.

Reminder

• Starting September 28^th, 2021, providers may not
  accept call traffic directly from a voice service provider that is
  not listed in the Robocall Mitigation Database.




• The second application filing window for the Emergency
  Connectivity Fund opens on September 28^th, 2021.




• Form 499 filers are required to submit a revised Form 499-A if
  there is any change in any of the following types of information:
  Filer identification; regulatory contact information; agent for
  service of process or FCC registration information. Such updates
  are due within 10 business days of the change.




• Voice service providers are required to update their filings in
  the Robocall Mitigation Database if there is any change in their
  robocall mitigation certifications required by 47 C.F.R. §
  64.6305(b)(2)-(4), including changes in the robocall mitigation
  program or contact information. Such updates are due within 10
  business days of the change.

Attorneys in Kelley Drye & Warren’s Communications
Practice Group are experienced in addressing universal service
filing and carrier contribution issues and are available to assist
clients with determining how to report their revenues for universal
service purposes, as well as with the filing of FCC Form 499-Q.