New Universal Service Report

FEDERAL-STATE UNIVERSAL SERVICE JOINT BOARD STAFF RELEASES MONITORING REPORT
[SOURCE: Federal Communications Commission]
The staff of the Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service has released its most recent Monitoring Report on Universal Service. This report reflects information on the telephone industry filed with the Federal Communications Commission through May 2006. This report, with a few exceptions, reflects data filed with the FCC by the telephone industry for the year 2005 and prior years. The report released Friday addresses the various universal service support mechanisms, which amounted to about $6.5 billion in 2005. In 2005, disbursements among the four categories of universal service mechanisms were: 58.7% for high-cost support; 28.6% for schools and libraries support; 12.4% for low-income support; and 0.4% for rural health care support. The report presents data in eleven categories including: 1) Industry Revenues and Contributions, 2) support for Low-income, High-Cost, Schools and Libraries & Rural Health care, 3) Subscribership levels, 4) rates and 5) Quality of Service. Wireline Competition Bureau contact: Alexander Belinfante at (202) 418-0944; TTY (202) 418-0484.
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* Full report: http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-269251A1.pdf