Universal Service Fund - High Cost in Alaska

Alaska × 32.002 is a High Cost USF join, not a subscriber census

This page pairs CFDA 32.002, UNIVERSAL SERVICE FUND - HIGH COST, with Alaska place of performance. Universal Service Fund - High Cost, as named on the catalog line, is the listing on one side of the join; Alaska (AK) is the geography tag on the other. SpendingVault sums tagged obligations: $717,433,732.82 on 31 awards. The extract does not list subscriber counts, carrier names, or village-by-village coverage. Treat the pair as a catalog intersection, not a ranking of which state needs the program more, and not a claim that 31 awards equal that many Alaska telephone companies. Alaska (AK) is not the lower 48. Washington, Oregon, and Hawaii 32.002 cells are other pairs. Bush-versus-Railbelt folklore is not a published split of this tag.

Other listings — other Universal Service listings such as Schools and Libraries or Rural Health Care rows on different CFDA numbers — sit outside $717,433,732.82 unless they also carry 32.002. Mixing USF High Cost with those rows would invent a combined figure the packet never computed. Correlation between this obligation sum and rural broadband maps is not causation. Those statistics are not in the packet. Place of performance as Alaska locates the tagged awards; it does not deposit $717,433,732.82 in the state treasury, and it does not prove every dollar stayed inside Alaska after subawards. fiber-to-the-village stories is not a published cut of this extract.

31 awards behind the Alaska 32.002 total

Award count is a row count of assistance awards, including possible continuations and modifications. It is not a census of Alaska broadband subscribers or miles of fiber. a thin high-cost file: a few dozen rows beside a large obligation total. Mean obligation is about $23.14 million if $717,433,732.82 were divided evenly across thirty-one lines — a mechanical ratio, not a typical payment published by the agency.

High Cost is the listing title. This page will not relabel the cell as a statewide broadband grant or as every Universal Service mechanism. Thirty-one awards remain 32.002 rows tagged to AK. Thirty-one awards are scannable on the overlay. This page will not invent recipient names. Open Universal Service Fund - High Cost in Alaska for the stored table. Do not convert 31 into a map of Alaska telephone companies. The $717,433,732.82 total remains an obligation rollup on tagged awards.

Questions

How much USF High Cost is obligated in Alaska?

USAspending.gov shows $717,433,732.82 in obligations for CFDA 32.002 with Alaska as place of performance, across thirty-one awards. The sum is a commitment total on assistance awards, not outlays and not the state's entire federal-spending total. Other listings are outside this join unless they also carry 32.002.

Do 31 awards mean 31 Alaska telecom carriers?

No. Award count is a row count of assistance awards and can include continuations. It is not a census of Alaska broadband subscribers or miles of fiber. The packet does not name recipients. See Universal Service Fund - High Cost in Alaska for named lines as USAspending stored them. Unique Alaska telephone companies are unpublished.

Is this every Universal Service dollar tagged to Alaska?

No. The join is CFDA 32.002 crossed with Alaska place of performance. Related programs on other CFDA numbers are not inside $717,433,732.82 unless the award also carries 32.002. other Universal Service listings such as Schools and Libraries or Rural Health Care rows on different CFDA numbers. Mixing those rows would invent a combined figure the packet never computed.

Is the USF High Cost total already paid in Alaska?

Not on this metric. Obligations are recorded commitments on assistance awards. Outlays are payments from the Treasury. The $717,433,732.82 headline is the obligation rollup in SpendingVault's extract. Completed activity and remaining balances are not published in this packet.