§  64.6304   Extension of implementation deadline.

   (a) Small voice service providers. (1) Small voice service providers
   are exempt from the requirements of § 64.6301 through June 30, 2023.

   (2) For purposes of this paragraph (a), “small voice service provider”
   means a provider that has 100,000 or fewer voice service subscriber
   lines (counting the total of all business and residential fixed
   subscriber lines and mobile phones and aggregated over all of the
   provider's affiliates).

   (b) Voice service providers that cannot obtain a SPC token. Voice
   service providers that are incapable of obtaining a SPC token due to
   Governance Authority policy are exempt from the requirements of
   § 64.6301 until they are capable of obtaining a SPC token.

   (c) Services scheduled for section 214 discontinuance. Services which
   are subject to a pending application for permanent discontinuance of
   service filed as of June 30, 2021, pursuant to the processes
   established in 47 CFR 63.60 through 63.100, as applicable, are exempt
   from the requirements of § 64.6301 through June 30, 2022.

   (d) Non-IP networks. Those portions of a voice service provider's
   network that rely on technology that cannot initiate, maintain, and
   terminate SIP calls are deemed subject to a continuing extension. A
   voice service provider subject to the foregoing extension shall comply
   with the requirements of § 64.6303 as to the portion of its network
   subject to the extension.

   (e) Provider-specific extensions. The Wireline Competition Bureau may
   extend the deadline for compliance with § 64.6301 for voice service
   providers that file individual petitions for extensions by November 20,
   2020. The Bureau shall seek comment on any such petitions and issue an
   order determining whether to grant the voice service provider an
   extension no later than March 30, 2021.

   (f) Annual reevaluation of granted extensions. The Wireline Competition
   Bureau shall, in conjunction with an assessment of burdens and barriers
   to implementation of caller identification authentication technology,
   annually review the scope of all previously granted extensions and,
   after issuing a Public Notice seeking comment, may extend or decline to
   extend each such extension, and may decrease the scope of entities
   subject to a further extension.

   [ 85 FR 73395 , Nov. 17, 2020]