from the carrier responses to the June 29, 2018 data request. Staff received responses from 25 groups of affiliates out of 28 that were sent data requests. These 25 groups of affiliates encompass 42 total carriers and carriers providing usable data represent 99.98% of the reported prepaid wireless revenues in the first half of 2018. Five Categories: The first category is the average percentage of prepaid wireless service revenue assigned to services which California considers to be intrastate. The second category is the average of the intrastate allocation factor for prepaid wireless services that carriers represented using for federal reporting purposes. Categories three and four are the averages of prepaid wireless carriers’ intrastate allocation derived from their most recently filed 2018 FCC Form 499-A. CD determined the intrastate figures by taking the reciprocal of reported interstate and international services on the form’s mobile services lines 409 and 410 respectively. The fifth category is the present 2018 intrastate allocation factor, which was based on carriers’ responses to staff’s 2017 data request. The average of the five categories, shown in the final line of Chart 8 below, is the intrastate allocation factor utilized in calculating the Commission’s portion of the prepaid MTS surcharge rate for the year 2019. Chart 8: Intrastate Allocation Factor Calculation There is a reduction in the 2019 intrastate allocation factor, which is 62.99%, as compared to the 2018 factor of 69.45%. MetroPCS’ Proposed Calculation of the Intrastate Allocation Factor Staff received a proposal for the calculation of the 2019 intrastate allocation factor from MetroPCS on July 17, 2018. MetroPCS proposes the Commission create an weighted intrastate revenue factor using a proposed data request to obtain information from carriers, which would then be utilized in a “weighted intrastate factors template,” which is an excel formatted spreadsheet. MetroPCS’s proposal is a five-step process:
from the carrier responses to the June 29, 2018 data request. Staff received responses from 25 groups of affiliates out of 28 that were sent data requests. These 25 groups of affiliates encompass 42 total carriers and carriers providing usable data represent 99.98% of the reported prepaid wireless revenues in the first half of 2018. Five Categories: The first category is the average percentage of prepaid wireless service revenue assigned to services which California considers to be intrastate. The second category is the average of the intrastate allocation factor for prepaid wireless services that carriers represented using for federal reporting purposes. Categories three and four are the averages of prepaid wireless carriers’ intrastate allocation derived from their most recently filed 2018 FCC Form 499-A. CD determined the intrastate figures by taking the reciprocal of reported interstate and international services on the form’s mobile services lines 409 and 410 respectively. The fifth category is the present 2018 intrastate allocation factor, which was based on carriers’ responses to staff’s 2017 data request. The average of the five categories, shown in the final line of Chart 8 below, is the intrastate allocation factor utilized in calculating the Commission’s portion of the prepaid MTS surcharge rate for the year 2019. Chart 8: Intrastate Allocation Factor Calculation There is a reduction in the 2019 intrastate allocation factor, which is 62.99%, as compared to the 2018 factor of 69.45%. MetroPCS’ Proposed Calculation of the Intrastate Allocation Factor Staff received a proposal for the calculation of the 2019 intrastate allocation factor from MetroPCS on July 17, 2018. MetroPCS proposes the Commission create an intrastate revenue factor using a proposed data request to obtain information from carriers, which would then be utilized in a “weighted intrastate factors template,” which is an excel formatted spreadsheet. MetroPCS’s proposal is a five-step process: weighted
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