CRTC Telecommunications Industry Data Collection
Frequently asked Questions - 2006
Wireline Local and Access Forms (21X)
FAQ Index
Form 211 – Local and Access Operating Revenues
- Where do I report Microlink and Megalink revenues?
- We provide local service. Where should Service Connection Charges be reported?
- Where do we report interconnection revenues?
Form 212 – Local and Access Voice and Access Lines
- Who should fill out this form?
- How many NAS should we report for ISDN services?
- Explain the three facilities categories: owned, leased and rebilled.
- What lines should we include under OTS?
- We provide VoIP services over a third-party broadband Internet access. How do we report NAS?
Form 213 – Local and Access NAS by Exchange
- Do we only report lines that we own?
- We provide VoIP services over a third-party broadband Internet access. How do we report NAS?
Form 214 – Access-Independent Telephone Service
- What do you mean by access independent telephone service?
Form 211 - Local and Access Operating Revenues
Where do I report Microlink and Megalink revenues?
Microlink and Megalink are brand names that, in Canada, are commonly used to designate ISDN BRI (192 Kbps) and PRI (1.5 Mbps) services, respectively. Microlink and Megalink are services that provide switched access to the rest of the PSTN. For this reason, ISDN links are popular with corporate customers seeking to enable PSTN access for in-house PBX applications.
Where sold in this way, Microlink and Megalink revenues should be reported as an "ISDN" item, on line XX. In fact, the only ISDN products not included on line XX are those that include Internet access: where ISDN is bundled with IP connectivity and routed access to the rest of the Internet, it should be included as an "Internet Access" item.
We provide local service. Where should Service Connection Charge we reported?
Where customers pay charges to have their service connected, the revenues that accrue from those charges should be reported on line 4: Other
Where do we report interconnection revenues?
Under Switching & Aggregation include direct connect and access tandem usage revenues, one-time and transactional 800/888 carrier ID charges and PIC processing charges. Under Other Local Interconnection include local, toll and CCS7 transit charges, and bill and keep settlement revenues. Where your customer also uses your private line facilities to interconnect, report these as short-haul wholesale revenues on Form 241.
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Form 212 – Local and Access Voice and Access Lines
Who should fill this form out?
Anyone who provides dedicated, fixed local services, such as local fixed voice and high-speed Internet. This form asks you to report the number of fixed lines over which you provide these services. That means that, where you provide two services over one line -- like DSL and local voice -- only one line should be reported.
How many NAS should we report for ISDN services?
The intent of this form is to capture the number of connections to the PSTN. Thus, regardless of the number of telephone numbers assigned, individual residential or business lines, Centrex and pay telephones represent one PSTN connection. Similarly, services such as Digital Exchange Access (DEA), and ISDN PRI and BRI have the capacity to support 24, 23/24 and 2 PSTN connections, respectively. Some end users of ISDN services may have more telephone numbers (DID, TNA) than connections however, report only the number of connections.
Explain the three facilities categories: owned, leased and rebilled.
Report the number of PSTN accesses for each type of service under the appropriate owned, leased or re-billed category. Owned lines are those provisioned to your customer using only your own network. Leased facilities, such as unbundled loops from the incumbent, are used to provide access from your customer’s premises to your network.
Re-billed services are those billed to your customer, but connected directly to the underlying providers’ network. An example of this is Centrex resale, where the incumbents’ Centrex service provides telephone service directly to your customer.
Owned or leased facilities connect your customers to your network. Rebilled facilities do not touch your network.
What lines should we include under OTS?
OTS lines are for internal company uses such as telephone service used by your own employees or for services that you offer your customers that require the use of connectivity to the PSTN, such as dial access to the Internet or virtual private networks (VPNs).
We provide VoIP services over a third-party broadband Internet access. How do we report NAS?
Refer to the response to the same question about Form 213 but roll-up to the provincial level.
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Form 213 – Local and Access Lines by Exchange
Do we only report lines that we own?
No. Report owned, leased and rebilled NAS when completing this form but, make sure not to include unbundled loops or lines for internal use (OTS).
Form 214 – Access-Independent Telephone Service
What do you mean by access independent telephone service?
Date Modified: 2006-02-03 |
