[VoiceOps] USF is 33.4% for 2Q2021

[Alex Balashov]

On 6/10/21 4:19 PM, Mike Hammett wrote:

> $3.19 is right around 24% of 33.4% of $39.95. Maybe Comcast's traffic 
> studies show that 24% of phone traffic is interstate, so that's the 
> amount that gets the USF charge?
It had been my impression that the FCC rather particularly insisted on a 
small number of standardised methodologies for calculating the USF fees 
recovered from end-customers. That would be in order to prevent opaque 
schemes in which the fees are marked up further through some convoluted, 
abstruse arithmetic.

Based on that, it seems doubtful that they one can just amortise the 
aggregate pro rata share of interstate revenue across the entire 
customer base, regardless of whether the customer in question does much 
interstate calling themselves.

Or am I wrong?

-- Alex

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