Universal Service Fund - High Cost in Alabama

The obligation sum on this Alabama catalog join

USAspending.gov CFDA program aggregates by place-of-performance state produce this Alabama row for Universal Service Fund - High Cost. The published obligation sum is $370,841,725.18 on 34 awards. The join is not a named carrier roster and not the Arkansas, Mississippi, North Dakota, or Oregon 32.002 joins.

Do not treat $370,841,725.18 as Alabama’s entire federal budget. Do not treat it as the national 32.002 total. Correlation is not causation. Campaign-finance tables remain a separate dataset.

Keep Universal Service Fund - High Cost and Alabama together. Alabama Rural Rental Assistance (10.427) is a USDA catalog, not this FCC high-cost line. Overlay /states/al/programs/32.002/ applies both filters; the other listed hubs do not.

Alabama high-cost universal service as a CFDA row

On the program side, the packet gives four facts: Universal Service Fund - High Cost, CFDA 32.002, $370,841,725.18, and 34 awards. UNIVERSAL SERVICE FUND - HIGH COST is the uppercase listing title. That is the full program inventory for this file. No recipient names appear.

The page is not a named carrier roster and not the Arkansas, Mississippi, North Dakota, or Oregon 32.002 joins. Neighbor-state Universal Service Fund - High Cost joins are other pairs, not addends for $370,841,725.18. A 32.002 award with a different state tag is outside this cell even if the work looks related.

Readers comparing Alabama to other states should open those other state-program pages rather than inferring a rank from $370,841,725.18. This file does not publish a national share or a year-over-year change because those figures are not in the packet.

Questions

How much Universal Service Fund - High Cost funding is obligated in Alabama?

USAspending.gov records $370,841,725.18 in CFDA 32.002 obligations with Alabama place of performance on 34 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay and not a named carrier roster and not the Arkansas, Mississippi, North Dakota, or Oregon 32.002 joins. Keep Universal Service Fund - High Cost and Alabama together when citing $370,841,725.18. Cite both 32.002 and Alabama together.

Do 34 awards mean 34 carriers in Alabama?

No. 34 is a USAspending award-record count, not 34 carriers, exchanges, or named projects. The implied mean is about $10,907,109.56 per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. Obligations of $370,841,725.18 are not outlays. USAspending.gov remains the source for this 32.002 × AL pair.

Is this Alabama’s full federal spend for related programs?

No. $370,841,725.18 is only the CFDA 32.002 × Alabama cell. The join is not a named carrier roster and not the Arkansas, Mississippi, North Dakota, or Oregon 32.002 joins. Other catalogs appear on separate Alabama program pages. Nationwide 32.002 is not limited to Alabama. Mixing CFDA numbers would invent a larger total.

Where is the live 32.002 × Alabama table?

Universal Service Fund - High Cost in Alabama is the overlay at /states/al/programs/32.002/. CFDA 32.002 is /programs/32.002/. Alabama federal spending is /states/al/. Alabama programs is /states/al/programs/. All spending ties is /ties/. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 32.002 × AL pair. Keep Universal Service Fund - High Cost and Alabama in the same citation.