FCC Surveys the Survey: Routine Renewal Notice
Published Date: 4/17/2025
Notice
Summary
The FCC is checking in on a yearly survey that businesses fill out about urban rates to make sure it’s still useful and not too much work. They want your thoughts on how to make this process easier, especially for small businesses with fewer than 25 employees. If you have ideas or concerns, send them in by June 16, 2025—this helps keep things fair and smooth without extra costs or hassle.
Analyzed Economic Effects
3 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 1 costs, 0 mixed.
Ensuring Comparable Urban and Rural Rates
The FCC will use the survey data to help ensure that universal service support recipients offering fixed voice and broadband charge rates reasonably comparable to urban areas for rural, insular, and high-cost areas. The goal is to make sure consumers in rural, insular, and high-cost areas have meaningful access to these services.
Mandatory Annual Urban Rates Survey
If your company is an urban provider of fixed voice or fixed broadband and is chosen to participate, you must complete an annual online survey. The survey is mandatory, covers 2,350 respondents with one response each, takes an estimated 3 hours per response, and totals 7,050 annual burden hours.
Focus on Reducing Small-Business Burden
The FCC specifically requests comment on ways to minimize the information-collection burden on small business concerns with fewer than 25 employees. Stakeholders with ideas to reduce paperwork or suggest automated collection methods can submit comments by June 16, 2025.
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