Filing FCC Form 477 is due September 1st, 2009. Information concerning this form and online form completion website is http://www.fcc.gov/form477/. There is also a system guide and tutorial for all Broadband Providers who are unfamiliar with the requirements.
http://www.fcc.gov/Forms/Form477/477systemguide.pdf Below is the FCC Regulation describing who must file the Form 477. I have copied the section which applies most to our industry. II. WHO MUST FILE THIS FORM? Four types of entities must file this form. For purposes of this information collection, the terms entity and entities include all commonly-controlled or commonly-owned affiliates. (See 47 U.S.C. § 153(1) (establishing a greater than 10 percent equity interest, or the equivalent thereof, as indicia of ownership.)) A. Facilities-based Providers of Broadband Connections to End User Locations: Entities that are facilities-based providers of broadband connections which, for purposes of this information collection, are wired lines or wireless channels that enable the end user to receive information from and/or send information to the Internet at information transfer rates exceeding 200 kbps in at least one direction must complete and file the applicable portions of this form foreach state in which the entity provides one or more such connections to end user locations. For the purposes of Form 477, a broadband end user is a residential, business, institutional, or government entity who uses broadband services for its own purposes and who does not resell such services to other entities or incorporate such services into retail Internet-access services. For purposes of Part I of Form 477, an Internet Service Provider (ISP) is not an end user of a broadband connection. For the purposes of Form 477, an entity is a facilities-based provider of broadband connections to end user locations if any of the following conditions are met: (1) it owns the portion of the physical facility that terminates at the end user location; (2) it obtains unbundled network elements (UNEs), special access lines, or other leased facilities that terminate at the end user location andprovisions/equips them as broadband, or (3) it provisions/equips a broadband wireless channel to the end user location over licensed or unlicensed spectrum. A non-exhaustive list of examples of such entities includes incumbent and competitive local exchange carriers (LECs), cable system operators, fixed wireless service providers (including wireless ISPs), terrestrial and satellite mobile wireless service providers, BRS providers, electric utilities, municipalities, and other entities. Such entities do not include equipment suppliers unless the equipment supplier uses the equipment to provision a broadband connection that it offers to the public for sale. Such entities also do not include providers of terrestrial fixed wireless services (e.g., Wi-Fi and other wireless Ethernet, or wireless local area network, applications) that only enable local distribution and sharing of a premises broadband facility, and they do not include air-to-ground services. The applicable portions of the form for facilities-based providers are: 1) Login & Filer Identification; 2) the relevant portion(s) of Part I; 3) Part IV (if necessary); and 4) Part VI. Respectfully, Rick Harnish
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