[VoiceOps] FUSF is 26.5% for Q3 2020: Discuss

[Carlos Alvarez]

I'm curious how this gets decided and changed.  Is it the FCC acting on its
own?  Pushed by legislators or the white house?  Does anyone have a say in
it?


On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 7:20 AM Mike Hammett <voiceops at ics-il.net> wrote:

> Slushfund out of the taxpayer's eyes.
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> *From: *"Peter Beckman" <beckman at angryox.com>
> *To: *"VoiceOps" <voiceops at voiceops.org>
> *Sent: *Friday, August 21, 2020 10:15:54 PM
> *Subject: *[VoiceOps] FUSF is 26.5% for Q3 2020: Discuss
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> Holy Crap. Reviewing my bills for July -- FUSF jumped from 19.6% to 26.5%
> !!!
> For Q3 2020.
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> 1Q 2009 was 9.5%.
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> How much is being collected and what actually is this money going toward?
> And WHY do they need such a high percentage?!?
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> Discuss. (Or yell at me that this isn't the place, I couldn't find a
> voiceops-discuss@)
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