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

[Carlos Alvarez]

I'd never really looked at the trend, but wow, it's gone up 5x in 20
years.  I suppose this correlates with bringing out morre rural internet
services?  In the last few years, in nearby Prescott, I've been seeing
signs and ads for 100M+ service to the middle of nowhere.  Places where
each house has 20-80 acres.  Must be paid by this, I assume.

https://files.taxfoundation.org/20181210115844/FF626_3.png

On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 12:57 PM Collin Anderson <collin at averysmallbird.com>
wrote:

> USAC sets the contribution factor based on the needs of the USF programs.
> There's a few articles out there about how market changes -- e.g. decrease
> revenues -- have increased the rate. But these changes and their
> justifications are public records:
> https://www.usac.org/service-providers/making-payments/contribution-factors/
>
> On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 10:24 AM Carlos Alvarez <caalvarez at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>>
>>> Holy Crap. Reviewing my bills for July -- FUSF jumped from 19.6% to
>>> 26.5% !!!
>>> For Q3 2020.
>>>
>>> 1Q 2009 was 9.5%.
>>>
>>> How much is being collected and what actually is this money going toward?
>>> And WHY do they need such a high percentage?!?
>>>
>>> Discuss. (Or yell at me that this isn't the place, I couldn't find a
>>> voiceops-discuss@)
>>>
>>>
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>>> Peter Beckman                                                  Internet
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> *Collin David Anderson*
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