<div dir="ltr">Or just politics and payoffs? Ironically, we are seeing far more inexpensive options coming up, such as Starlink, yet also growing the taxes to serve them?<div><br></div><div>Has any organization/tax been removed when it was no longer needed: Eg: Spanish-American war and telecom tax...</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 8:04 AM Adam Moffett <<a href="mailto:adam@plexicomm.net">adam@plexicomm.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">I don't have any inside info on that, but the purpose of USF is to <br>
subsidize service in high cost areas (usually rural).<br>
So either there are more services needing subsidies or fewer services <br>
paying in or some combination of both.<br>
<br>
Q2 2021 – 33.4%<br>
Q1 2021 – 31.8%<br>
Q4 2020 – 27.1%<br>
Q3 2020 – 26.5%<br>
Q2 2020 – 19.6%<br>
Q1 2020 – 21.2%<br>
Q4 2019 – 25.0%<br>
Q3 2019 – 24.4%<br>
Q2 2019 – 18.8%<br>
Q1 2019 – 20.0%<br>
Q4 2018 – 20.1%<br>
Q3 2018 – 17.9%<br>
Q2 2018 – 18.4%<br>
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Subject: [VoiceOps] USF is 33.4% for 2Q2021<br>
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>Um. Wow. This is crazy. Why is it 33.4%???<br>
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>2 years ago it was 18.8%. This is DOUBLE!<br>
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>Will it stop increasing? Go back down? Are we doomed?<br>
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