Universal Service Fund - High Cost in South Dakota

South Dakota joined to CFDA 32.002

CFDA 32.002 is titled UNIVERSAL SERVICE FUND - HIGH COST. Crossed with South Dakota place of performance, obligations sum to $582,360,266.93 on 37 awards. The national 32.002 hub includes other states. South Dakota’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this intersection is reported here. $582,360,266.93 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a count of rural exchanges on the prairie.

Thirty-seven 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 $582,360,266.93, 37 awards, SD, and 32.002. Correlation is not causation. FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell. Keep USF High Cost and South Dakota together when reading $582,360,266.93.

32.002 is not Lifeline in South Dakota

Lifeline and E-Rate use different CFDA numbers. Mixing those series into $582,360,266.93 would invent a broader total than this cell contains. Facts available: South Dakota, CFDA 32.002, $582,360,266.93, 37 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 Carrier names, study-area codes, and subscriber counts are unpublished.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 $582,360,266.93 by 37 yields about $15.74 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. 37 is not a carrier or subscriber census.

Questions

How much USF High Cost support is obligated in South Dakota?

USAspending records $582,360,266.93 in CFDA 32.002 obligations with South Dakota place of performance on 37 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay. Keep Universal Service Fund - High Cost and South Dakota together when citing $582,360,266.93.

Does 37 awards mean 37 South Dakota carriers?

37 is a USAspending award-record count, not a carrier or subscriber census. The implied mean is about $15.74 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. 37 is a record count, not a person or facility census.

Is this South Dakota’s total federal telecom spending?

No. This join is CFDA 32.002 only. Lifeline, E-Rate, and other catalogs appear on separate South Dakota program pages. Nationwide 32.002 is not limited to South Dakota. Obligations of $582,360,266.93 are not outlays. The overlay is the live USF High Cost–South Dakota table.

Do these obligations equal fiber already built?

No. $582,360,266.93 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 × SD pair.