Database of Urban and Rural Rates for the Telecommunications Program

The Federal Communications Commission's Wireline Competition Bureau directed the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) to add to the Database of Urban and Rural Rates for the Telecommunications Program (Telecom Program Rates Database) rates for all funding requests committed since its launch. On June 30, 2020, the Bureau directed USAC, among other things, to include data from both the E-Rate and Rural Health Care Programs from the three most recent available funding years to identify the median rates when establishing the Telecom Program Rates Database. To provide certainty as to the median rates upon which support amounts are based, the Telecom Program Rates Database uses data as of a set date. Accordingly, at the launch of the Telecom Program Rates Database on July 1, 2020, the data included was as of June 30, 2020. The Bureau separately directed USAC to provide a two-month period for stakeholders to provide supplemental rate information following the launch of the Telecom Program Rates Database.