Universal Service Monitoring Report

This is the seventeenth report in a series prepared by federal and state staff members for the Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service. This report is generally based on information available to us as of September 2014.

Section 1 provides an update on industry revenues, universal service program funding requirements, and contribution factors. Sections 2 through 5 provide the latest data on the low-income, high-cost, schools and libraries, and rural health care support mechanisms. Section 6 presents recent Census data on voice telephony subscribership from the Current Population Survey and the American Community Survey as well as data on telephone penetration by income by state. It also includes data on residential Internet subscribership. Section 7 includes updated Consumer Price Index data. An Appendix provides additional information regarding the high-cost program, updating the Universal Service Implementation Report released in March 2014.