Universal Service Fund - High Cost in Kansas

Kansas joined to CFDA 32.002

CFDA 32.002 is titled UNIVERSAL SERVICE FUND - HIGH COST. Crossed with Kansas place of performance, obligations sum to $580,130,998.27 on 58 awards. The national 32.002 hub includes other states. Kansas’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this intersection is reported here. $580,130,998.27 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a count of rural exchanges in western Kansas.

Fifty-eight awards is a carrier-support pattern: High Cost USF often posts as several dozen discrete records rather than one statewide block. The join does not name recipients. Packet facts are $580,130,998.27, 58 awards, KS, and 32.002. Correlation is not causation. FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell. Keep USF High Cost and Kansas together when reading $580,130,998.27.

32.002 is not Lifeline in Kansas

Lifeline and E-Rate use different CFDA numbers. Mixing those series into $580,130,998.27 would invent a broader total than this cell contains. Facts available: Kansas, CFDA 32.002, $580,130,998.27, 58 awards. Carrier names, study-area codes, and subscriber counts are unpublished.

The catalog title names Universal Service Fund High Cost, not a ranking of carriers. Dividing $580,130,998.27 by 58 yields about $10.00 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. 58 is not a carrier or subscriber census.

Questions

How much USF High Cost support is obligated in Kansas?

USAspending records $580,130,998.27 in CFDA 32.002 obligations with Kansas place of performance on 58 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay. Keep Universal Service Fund - High Cost and Kansas together when citing $580,130,998.27.

Does 58 awards mean 58 Kansas carriers?

58 is a USAspending award-record count, not a carrier or subscriber census. The implied mean is about $10.00 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. 58 is a record count, not a person or facility census.

Is this Kansas’s total federal telecom spending?

No. This join is CFDA 32.002 only. Lifeline, E-Rate, and other catalogs appear on separate Kansas program pages. Nationwide 32.002 is not limited to Kansas. Obligations of $580,130,998.27 are not outlays. The overlay is the live USF High Cost–Kansas table.

Do these obligations equal fiber already built?

No. $580,130,998.27 is an obligation sum. Outlays are a different USAspending series. Drawdowns can lag the federal obligation. This packet has no outlay total. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 32.002 × KS pair.