I had thought it was, "here's the safe harbor. If you want to substitute your own traffic study go ahead. We won't define how it is calculated, just don't screw it up, or you'll get our boot in your backside." I figured it was as macro or micro as you wanted it to be and could support. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest Internet Exchange http://www.midwest-ix.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex Balashov" <abalashov at evaristesys.com> To: voiceops at voiceops.org Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2021 3:29:08 PM Subject: Re: [VoiceOps] USF is 33.4% for 2Q2021 On 6/10/21 4:19 PM, Mike Hammett wrote:
$3.19 is right around 24% of 33.4% of $39.95. Maybe Comcast's traffic studies show that 24% of phone traffic is interstate, so that's the amount that gets the USF charge? It had been my impression that the FCC rather particularly insisted on a small number of standardised methodologies for calculating the USF fees recovered from end-customers. That would be in order to prevent opaque schemes in which the fees are marked up further through some convoluted, abstruse arithmetic.
Based on that, it seems doubtful that they one can just amortise the aggregate pro rata share of interstate revenue across the entire customer base, regardless of whether the customer in question does much interstate calling themselves. Or am I wrong? -- Alex -- Alex Balashov | Principal | Evariste Systems LLC Tel: +1-706-510-6800 / +1-800-250-5920 (toll-free) Web: http://www.evaristesys.com/, http://www.csrpswitch.com/ _______________________________________________ VoiceOps mailing list VoiceOps at voiceops.org https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops