[VoiceOps] USF is 33.4% for 2Q2021

[Paul Timmins]

It is when we pay to build far more capacity than the school can 
conceivably use to a network that can't be repurposed for other things, 
especially when it overbuilds existing networks (ie: The school can't 
even make money leasing back excess capacity, because nobody needs the 
extra glass on that route).

If the local taxpayers want to spend their money that way doing that in 
a metro area that's fine, but if we have to raise USF to get the funds 
needed to provide fiber to a school district fed by 6 T1s in BFE, then 
there's a huge problem with that, not just inequity (that school could 
self fund it, they're in one of the top 10 wealthiest zipcodes in the 
nation) but lack of priorities (they already have an existing 10 gig 
ring on IRUs and a handful of lit services, where some erate entrants 50 
miles away are trying to upgrade from sharing a double digit cablemodem 
or even multilink T1s).

If we fund them all, then you get 33.4% and rising. If we told that 
other school that they had to demonstrate the 10gb ring was insufficient 
for their needs in order to upgrade, we'd have more money to spend on 
the rural and inner city districts who don't have the money.

-Paul

On 6/10/21 11:11 AM, Joseph Jackson wrote:
> Is that a bad thing?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: VoiceOps [mailto:voiceops-bounces at voiceops.org] On Behalf Of Paul Timmins
> Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2021 10:07 AM
> To: Adam Moffett; VoiceOps
> Subject: Re: [VoiceOps] USF is 33.4% for 2Q2021
>
> 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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