Affordable Connectivity Program awarded by Federal Communications Commission

ACP × FCC is CFDA 32.008, not a subscriber census

This page is a join: Affordable Connectivity Program (CFDA 32.008) and the Federal Communications Commission (agency 027). $12,818,337,428.45 is the obligation sum on that pair. It is not the government-wide assistance total, not every CFDA on All programs, and not cash already paid. Correlation is not causation: a large pair cell does not prove the Federal Communications Commission caused activity described by the program title, or the reverse. Campaign-finance tables are a different dataset; FEC donations do not fund these USAspending obligations.

CFDA 32.008 is the program parent without an awarding-agency filter. Federal Communications Commission is the agency parent without this CFDA filter. All spending ties lists other pairs. A Affordable Connectivity Program award tagged to a different awarding agency sits outside this cell even if the CFDA is still 32.008. A Federal Communications Commission award on a different CFDA sits outside even if the topic sounds related. The pair cell and the program book differ by a small residual. Quote both; do not invent a second awarding agency.

Affordable Connectivity Program as the program side

CFDA 32.008 is Affordable Connectivity Program. Confusing this join with USF High Cost, a state broadband grant, or an FCC Form 477 file would be a different table. Packet facts on the program side are the name Affordable Connectivity Program, number 32.008, and program-wide obligations $12,818,298,289.70. This packet lists no award recipients and no contractor names. Any other vendor, school, tribe, carrier, or grantee list would be invented.

Readers sometimes treat a CFDA–agency total as a budget Congress passed for a named activity. $12,818,337,428.45 is not that. It is the USAspending obligation rollup tagged to Affordable Connectivity Program and awarded by the Federal Communications Commission. Cite both sides. Sixty-three thousand four hundred thirty-nine awards is not 63,439 unique households or 63,439 unique ISPs. Recurring reimbursements add rows.

Federal Communications Commission as the awarding-agency side

Awarding-agency code 027 is the Federal Communications Commission. It is not a bureau split inside that department, not a place-of-performance state, and not a NAICS industry. The pair cell $12,818,337,428.45 is larger than the program-wide obligation total $12,818,298,289.70 in this extract. Quote both figures; do not invent a second program to explain the gap. Do not treat the program-wide $12,818,298,289.70 as if it were automatically the pair headline when the two figures differ. When they match, equality still does not name recipients.

Federal Communications Commission shows how Affordable Connectivity Program sits beside other CFDAs the Federal Communications Commission awards. This packet has no outlay total, no recipient roster, and no fiscal-year split. Household counts, provider names, or monthly-benefit shares are unpublished. Provider names, household counts, and coverage maps are unpublished on this packet.

63,439 awards behind the ACP–FCC cell

The extract lists 63,439 awards on the ACP Broadband × FCC pair. A very thick provider-reimbursement file: 63,439 awards against a large obligation total. Dividing $12,818,337,428.45 by 63,439 yields about $202,058 per award — a quotient of two packet facts, not a typical invoice and not a median. Unique recipients are unpublished. Modifications can add rows without naming a new organization. 63,439 is not a broadband-subscriber census, a coverage map, or a USF High Cost twin.

ACP obligations are not monthly credits already posted

An obligation is a legal commitment. An outlay is a payment. $12,818,337,428.45 is the former. Citing it as cash already cleared over-reads the field. The join cannot say that the Federal Communications Commission specialized in acp broadband because of federal demand. Keep $12,818,337,428.45 labeled as Affordable Connectivity Program obligations awarded by the Federal Communications Commission. It is not a broadband-subscriber census, a coverage map, or a USF High Cost twin. The packet publishes no fiscal year, so this page does not invent one.

Hubs for ACP awarded by the FCC

Open CFDA 32.008 for the program rollup, Federal Communications Commission for the awarding-agency rollup, All programs for other CFDA hubs, and All spending ties for other pairs. None of those links convert this cell into USF High Cost, a state broadband grant, or an FCC Form 477 file, into outlays this packet omits, or into a contractor list. Cite both sides: Affordable Connectivity Program and Federal Communications Commission, CFDA 32.008, agency 027, $12,818,337,428.45, 63,439 awards, USAspending.gov, obligations only.

Questions

How much did Federal Communications Commission award under ACP Broadband?

USAspending.gov records $12,818,337,428.45 in Affordable Connectivity Program obligations awarded by the Federal Communications Commission (CFDA 32.008, agency 027). That is an obligation aggregate for the program–agency pair, not an outlay and not a government-wide total.

Is CFDA 32.008 the same as USF High Cost?

No. $12,818,337,428.45 is an obligation sum, not an outlay. Payments from the Treasury can lag or differ. This packet has no outlay total for ACP Broadband via FCC. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov. Keep both the CFDA number and the awarding-agency code in the citation.

Do 63,439 awards mean 63,439 internet providers?

No. 63,439 is the pair’s award-record count, not a published recipient census. Unique vendors and places are unpublished. Modifications can add rows. The implied mean is about $202,058, a quotient, not a typical award. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.

Which pages parent ACP Broadband awarded by FCC?

CFDA 32.008 is the program parent. Federal Communications Commission is the Federal Communications Commission parent. All programs lists CFDA hubs. All spending ties lists other pairs. Prefer those tables after later ingests; this page quotes ACP Broadband × FCC at $12,818,337,428.45.