Universal Service Fund - High Cost in Minnesota

Eighty-six High Cost records meet Minnesota coding

This tie keeps USAspending assistance where CFDA 32.002 meets Minnesota place of performance. The dollar book is $1,494,850,326.38. The award count is 86. USF High Cost support typically posts as payments to eligible telecommunications carriers serving high-cost areas. Eighty-six records do not equal 86 cooperatives, and they do not isolate Iron Range exchanges from southern Minnesota.

The join does not prove that Minnesota’s rural density, lake-country geography, or a particular CAF/ACAM election caused $1,494,850,326.38. Those are other series. This packet does not split legacy High Cost from newer Connect America mechanisms that still carry 32.002. Correlation is not causation.

A reader who treats the cell as Minnesota’s full FCC obligation book has left the CFDA-by-state definition. Other universal-service catalog numbers (schools and libraries, rural health) are not this cell. The 86 figure is a record count, including modifications, not a household-passed count.

Eighty-six awards and a blended mean

Eighty-six awards under $1,494,850,326.38 imply a mean near $17,382,004 per award. Larger carrier-support actions can sit above that average; smaller amendments can sit below it. The packet has no median and no share on the largest ten awards.

Cite both columns. USAspending.gov is the source; SpendingVault does not recast the mean as a typical monthly High Cost settlement or as a per-location subsidy.

Questions

How much USF High Cost spending is in Minnesota?

USAspending.gov shows $1,494,850,326.38 in CFDA 32.002 obligations coded to Minnesota across 86 awards. The join uses the program number and Minnesota place of performance. The total is obligations, not outlays.

Does 86 awards mean 86 telephone companies?

No. The extract counts 86 award records tagged to CFDA 32.002 and Minnesota. Modifications and multiple support mechanisms can share the tape. The implied mean is about $17,382,004 per award from the two packet facts.

Is $1.49 billion Minnesota’s full federal spending?

No. $1,494,850,326.38 is only the Universal Service Fund - High Cost cell. Other CFDA programs with Minnesota place of performance sit on the statewide hub. Nationwide 32.002 is not limited to Minnesota.

Do these obligations equal cash paid to carriers?

No. $1,494,850,326.38 is an obligation sum. Outlays are a different USAspending series. Monthly USF disbursements can split across the obligation window.