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 <caalvarez at gmail.com> 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 <voiceops at ics-il.net> wrote:
Slushfund out of the taxpayer's eyes.
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------------------------------ *From: *"Peter Beckman" <beckman at angryox.com> *To: *"VoiceOps" <voiceops at voiceops.org> *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@)
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