<div dir="ltr">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: <a href="https://www.usac.org/service-providers/making-payments/contribution-factors/">https://www.usac.org/service-providers/making-payments/contribution-factors/</a></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 10:24 AM Carlos Alvarez <<a href="mailto:caalvarez@gmail.com">caalvarez@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">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?<div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 7:20 AM Mike Hammett <<a href="mailto:voiceops@ics-il.net" target="_blank">voiceops@ics-il.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Slushfund out of the taxpayer's eyes.<br><br><div><span name="x"></span><br><br>-----<br>Mike Hammett<br>Intelligent Computing Solutions<br><a href="http://www.ics-il.com" target="_blank">http://www.ics-il.com</a><br><br><br><br>Midwest Internet Exchange<br><a href="http://www.midwest-ix.com" target="_blank">http://www.midwest-ix.com</a><br><br><span name="x"></span><br></div><br><hr id="gmail-m_-2603586550748149472gmail-m_3630064887987933208zwchr"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><b>From: </b>"Peter Beckman" <<a href="mailto:beckman@angryox.com" target="_blank">beckman@angryox.com</a>><br><b>To: </b>"VoiceOps" <<a href="mailto:voiceops@voiceops.org" target="_blank">voiceops@voiceops.org</a>><br><b>Sent: </b>Friday, August 21, 2020 10:15:54 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>[VoiceOps] FUSF is 26.5% for Q3 2020: Discuss<br><br>Holy Crap. Reviewing my bills for July -- FUSF jumped from 19.6% to 26.5% !!!<br>For Q3 2020.<br><br>1Q 2009 was 9.5%.<br><br>How much is being collected and what actually is this money going toward?<br>And WHY do they need such a high percentage?!?<br><br>Discuss. (Or yell at me that this isn't the place, I couldn't find a<br>voiceops-discuss@)<br><br>---------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Peter Beckman                                                  Internet Guy<br><a href="mailto:beckman@angryox.com" target="_blank">beckman@angryox.com</a>                                 <a href="http://www.angryox.com/" target="_blank">http://www.angryox.com/</a><br>---------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>_______________________________________________<br>VoiceOps mailing list<br><a href="mailto:VoiceOps@voiceops.org" target="_blank">VoiceOps@voiceops.org</a><br><a href="https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops" target="_blank">https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops</a><br></div><br></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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