I live 15 minutes outside my local city limits and I'm only 45 minutes from downtown Nashville. My only internet option is satellite. I pay $160 a month for a service that isn't as good as the $30 DSL service I used to have when I lived inside the city limits. That may be because I'm served by an AT&T remote office rather than the ILEC that services the areas at both ends of my street. You'd think cell service and wireless service would be better because I'm only a mile from the closest cell tower. That's not the case however. Interestingly enough no on seems to claim that tower - they all tell me I'm not in a good service area because the tower is so far away. Go figure.....so if you ask me, the people with 20-80 acres probably aren't getting much of anything because the people with an average of 5 or less acres aren't even getting decent service! My guess is it's probably going into someone's slush fund because its NOT going into providing decent service! MARY LOU CAREY BackUP Telecom Consulting Office: 615-791-9969 Cell: 615-796-1111 On 2020-08-23 01:18 PM, Carlos Alvarez wrote:
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 <collin at averysmallbird.com> 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 <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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