Assessing regulatory fees on long distance resellers is redundant and financially burdensome, TRA tell FCC.WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 13, 1995--Resellers of long distance services should not be required to pay regulatory fees as such an imposition represents a double, triple or greater recovery of assessments, said the Telecommunications Resellers Association in comments filed with the Federal Communications Commission Federal Communications Commission (FCC), independent executive agency of the U.S. government established in 1934 to regulate interstate and foreign communications in the public interest. today in response to a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking A notice of proposed rulemaking or NPRM is issued by law when a regulatory agency of the United States Federal Government wishes to add, remove, or change a rule (or regulation) as part of the rulemaking process. Outside the USA. on Assessment and Collection of Regulatory Fees for Fiscal Year 1995. "Because of the multilayered mul·ti·lay·ered adj. Consisting of or involving several individual layers or levels. distribution of long distance services, assessing fees on resellers is redundant," said TRA TRA Training TRA Transfer TRA Transition TRA Tennessee Regulatory Authority TRA Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (Oman) TRA Tax Reform Act (1976, 1984, or 1986) TRA Teachers Retirement Association Executive Director Ernie Kelly. "Resellers already pay regulatory fees in the price of services purchased from their underlying carriers. Should resellers be required to pay fees directly as well, they will have paid twice. And given that large resellers often provide `wholesale' services to smaller resellers, fees may be paid again and again on the same traffic. "Paying fees indirectly two or three times adversely impacts the profitability of small resellers which have contributed to the reduced rates and diversity of supply present in today's competitive long distance market. Furthermore, it make little sense to unfairly burden resellers especially at a time when the nation is looking to small businesses to create jobs and stimulate economic growth." In the event that the FCC (1) (Federal Communications Commission, Washington, DC, www.fcc.gov) The U.S. government agency that regulates interstate and international communications including wire, cable, radio, TV and satellite. The FCC was created under the U.S. levies regulatory fees on resale providers, however, TRA recommends that they be calculated on the basis of "customer units" rather than alternatives proposed by the commission. TRA is the national association for resellers of telecommunications services. For more information, or copies of TRA's comments, contact TRA at 1155 Connecticut Ave. N.W., 3rd floor, Washington, D.C., 20036, 202/429-6601, fax: 202/835-9893. CONTACT: TRA Executive Director Ernie Kelly, 202/429-6601 or Public Relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most Counsel Khali Henderson, 602/893-2057 |
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