Universal Service Fund - High Cost in Wisconsin

Ninety-six High Cost records meet Wisconsin coding

This tie keeps USAspending assistance where CFDA 32.002 meets Wisconsin place of performance. The dollar book is $1,346,396,440.76. The award count is 96. USF High Cost support typically posts as payments to eligible telecommunications carriers serving high-cost areas. Ninety-six records do not equal 96 cooperatives, and they do not isolate Northwoods exchanges from southern Wisconsin.

The join does not prove that Wisconsin’s rural density, lake-country geography, or a particular CAF/ACAM election caused $1,346,396,440.76. Those are other series. This packet does not split legacy High Cost from newer support mechanisms that still carry 32.002. Correlation is not causation.

A reader who treats the cell as Wisconsin’s full FCC obligation book has left the CFDA-by-state definition. Other universal-service catalog numbers are not this cell. The 96 figure is a record count, including modifications, not a household-passed count.

A thicker tape than Minnesota’s 32.002 cell

Ninety-six awards under $1,346,396,440.76 imply a mean near $14,024,964 per award. Larger carrier-support actions can sit above that average; smaller amendments can sit below it. The packet has no median.

Wisconsin’s 96-row tape is thicker than Minnesota’s 86-row High Cost cell on this slice, with a lower implied mean. That contrast is a filing pattern, not a ranking of rural networks. Cite Wisconsin’s own columns. USAspending.gov is the source; SpendingVault does not recast the mean as a typical monthly settlement.

Questions

How much USF High Cost spending is in Wisconsin?

USAspending.gov shows $1,346,396,440.76 in CFDA 32.002 obligations coded to Wisconsin across 96 awards. The join uses the program number and Wisconsin place of performance. The total is obligations, not outlays.

Does 96 awards mean 96 telephone companies?

No. The extract counts 96 award records tagged to CFDA 32.002 and Wisconsin. Modifications and multiple support mechanisms can share the tape. The implied mean is about $14,024,964 per award from the two packet facts.

Is $1.35 billion Wisconsin’s full federal spending?

No. $1,346,396,440.76 is only the Universal Service Fund - High Cost cell. Other CFDA programs with Wisconsin place of performance sit on the statewide hub. Nationwide 32.002 is not limited to Wisconsin.

Do these obligations equal cash paid to carriers?

No. $1,346,396,440.76 is an obligation sum. Outlays are a different USAspending series. Monthly USF disbursements can split across the obligation window.