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

[Mary Lou Carey]

I live 15 minutes outside my local city limits and I'm only 45 minutes 
from downtown Nashville. My only internet option is satellite. I pay 
$160 a month for a service that isn't as good as the $30 DSL service I 
used to have when I lived inside the city limits. That may be because 
I'm served by an AT&T remote office rather than the ILEC that services 
the areas at both ends of my street. You'd think cell service and 
wireless service would be better because I'm only a mile from the 
closest cell tower. That's not the case however. Interestingly enough no 
on seems to claim that tower - they all tell me I'm not in a good 
service area because the tower is so far away. Go figure.....so if you 
ask me, the people with 20-80 acres probably aren't getting much of 
anything because the people with an average of 5 or less acres aren't 
even getting decent service!

My guess is it's probably going into someone's slush fund because its 
NOT going into providing decent service!

MARY LOU CAREY
BackUP Telecom Consulting
Office: 615-791-9969
Cell: 615-796-1111

On 2020-08-23 01:18 PM, Carlos Alvarez wrote:
> 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.
>> 
>> -----
>> Mike Hammett
>> Intelligent Computing Solutions
>> http://www.ics-il.com
>> 
>> Midwest Internet Exchange
>> http://www.midwest-ix.com
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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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