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 <caalva...@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 <voice...@ics-il.net> 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" <beck...@angryox.com> >> *To: *"VoiceOps" <voiceops@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@) >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Peter Beckman Internet >> Guy >> beck...@angryox.com >> http://www.angryox.com/ >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> _______________________________________________ >> VoiceOps mailing list >> VoiceOps@voiceops.org >> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops >> >> _______________________________________________ >> VoiceOps mailing list >> VoiceOps@voiceops.org >> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops >> > _______________________________________________ > VoiceOps mailing list > VoiceOps@voiceops.org > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops > -- *Collin David Anderson* averysmallbird.com | @cda | Washington, D.C.
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