[VoiceOps] USF is 33.4% for 2Q2021

[Paul Timmins]

It feels like every year, I see some elementary school building a 100gb 
coherent 288 strand dark fiber ring on e-rate funds. Yeah, I'm 
exaggerating a bit, but in the case of a local district, only by a bit 
(they were doing 40gb, for a district).

A far cry from when we just subsidized some pots lines or a PRI.

On 6/10/21 11:01 AM, Adam Moffett wrote:
> I don't have any inside info on that, but the purpose of USF is to 
> subsidize service in high cost areas (usually rural).
> So either there are more services needing subsidies or fewer services 
> paying in or some combination of both.
>
> Q2 2021 – 33.4%
> Q1 2021 – 31.8%
> Q4 2020 – 27.1%
> Q3 2020 – 26.5%
> Q2 2020 – 19.6%
> Q1 2020 – 21.2%
> Q4 2019 – 25.0%
> Q3 2019 – 24.4%
> Q2 2019 – 18.8%
> Q1 2019 – 20.0%
> Q4 2018 – 20.1%
> Q3 2018 – 17.9%
> Q2 2018 – 18.4%
>
>
> ------ Original Message ------
> From: "Peter Beckman" <beckman at angryox.com>
> To: "VoiceOps" <voiceops at voiceops.org>
> Sent: 6/10/2021 12:15:16 AM
> Subject: [VoiceOps] USF is 33.4% for 2Q2021
>
>> Um. Wow. This is crazy. Why is it 33.4%???
>>
>> 2 years ago it was 18.8%. This is DOUBLE!
>>
>> Will it stop increasing? Go back down? Are we doomed?
>>
>> Beckman
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