Verizon urged the FCC to make clear that wholesale providers...

with an aide to Commissioner Robert McDowell, Verizon executives discussed the joint petition of AT&T, CenturyLink, SureWest, and Verizon for clarification or partial reconsideration of a 2010 order directing TelePacific to give the Universal Service Administrative Co. the names and contact information of its wholesale providers of transmission services. Verizon asked the commission to clarify that wholesale providers that complied with the directions in the Form 499 worksheet instructions can’t be made to restate their revenue and make additional contributions to the fund “if it later turns out that a reseller, for whatever reason, either should not have signed a certification or should have submitted a modified certification,” the ex parte said. Verizon also said no commission rule prohibits a customer from accurately certifying on an entity basis that it is a reseller; and that any requirement for resellers to apportion their wholesale purchases would require costly changes to ordering, billing and reporting systems, and would increase carriers’ burden of administering the contribution system.