I'd never really looked at the trend, but wow, it's gone up 5x in 20 years. I suppose this correlates with bringing out morre rural internet services? In the last few years, in nearby Prescott, I've been seeing signs and ads for 100M+ service to the middle of nowhere. Places where each house has 20-80 acres. Must be paid by this, I assume.
https://files.taxfoundation.org/20181210115844/FF626_3.png On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 12:57 PM Collin Anderson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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: > https://www.usac.org/service-providers/making-payments/contribution-factors/ > > On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 10:24 AM Carlos Alvarez <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> 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? >> >> >> On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 7:20 AM Mike Hammett <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Slushfund out of the taxpayer's eyes. >>> >>> >>> >>> ----- >>> Mike Hammett >>> Intelligent Computing Solutions >>> http://www.ics-il.com >>> >>> >>> >>> Midwest Internet Exchange >>> http://www.midwest-ix.com >>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------ >>> *From: *"Peter Beckman" <[email protected]> >>> *To: *"VoiceOps" <[email protected]> >>> *Sent: *Friday, August 21, 2020 10:15:54 PM >>> *Subject: *[VoiceOps] FUSF is 26.5% for Q3 2020: Discuss >>> >>> Holy Crap. Reviewing my bills for July -- FUSF jumped from 19.6% to >>> 26.5% !!! >>> For Q3 2020. >>> >>> 1Q 2009 was 9.5%. >>> >>> How much is being collected and what actually is this money going toward? >>> And WHY do they need such a high percentage?!? >>> >>> Discuss. (Or yell at me that this isn't the place, I couldn't find a >>> voiceops-discuss@) >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> Peter Beckman Internet >>> Guy >>> [email protected] >>> http://www.angryox.com/ >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> _______________________________________________ >>> VoiceOps mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> VoiceOps mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> VoiceOps mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops >> > > > -- > *Collin David Anderson* > averysmallbird.com | @cda | Washington, D.C. >
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