Federal Communications Commission federal obligations in Arkansas

Federal Communications Commission dollars tagged to Arkansas

$705,127,799.43 attaches to awards that list both Federal Communications Commission (agency 027) and Arkansas geography. Drop either filter and the total changes. Rural broadband, universal-service support, and tower-siting folklore is a coding conversation, not a packet field. The join does not rank Arkansas against other states.

4,423 is a record count on the FCC–Arkansas overlay, not a headcount of carriers. 4,423 award actions sit behind that dollar figure — a very long award list beside a large obligation total. This narrative does not invent contractor names.

Open Federal Communications Commission in Arkansas for the filtered table, Arkansas federal spending for the next hub, Federal Communications Commission for the remaining hub, and All spending ties for other pairs.

Why a very long award list still hides mixed instruments

The mean obligation of about $159,422.97 is arithmetic only. A very long award list can hide one large action among smaller modifications. Readers who need instrument type should use the overlay table, not this narrative. No contractor is named here because none appears in the packet facts.

If a later ingest restates $705,127,799.43, the join definition stays the same: agency 027 plus Arkansas place of performance. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved.

Two hubs, one intersection

Drop the Arkansas geography tag and agency 027 still has a national total on Federal Communications Commission. Drop the agency tag and Arkansas still has a multi-agency total on Arkansas federal spending. Neither hub equals $705,127,799.43 on its own.

Little Rock, Fayetteville, and Fort Smith are reader landmarks, not packet subtotals. The geography key is statewide Arkansas. Headquarters folklore about Little Rock does not move $705,127,799.43.

What USAspending publishes here

$705,127,799.43 records commitments tagged to Federal Communications Commission and Arkansas. Payments, recoveries, and cancellations would live in other fields. This extract does not publish those fields.

Keep the obligation word in every reuse of $705,127,799.43. Arkansas federal spending and Federal Communications Commission use the same unit on their own filters. Mixing units across hubs produces a false statewide cash story.

Arkansas FCC totals are not campaign money

Rural broadband, universal-service support, and tower-siting folklore plus river-city and Ozark folklore can look like a story. The published facts are only $705,127,799.43, 4,423 awards, agency 027, and Arkansas. Anything else is outside the extract.

Do not claim that donations paid for $705,127,799.43 in Arkansas. The source is USAspending.gov award aggregates. FEC tables are out of scope for this join.

Reuse rules for this extract

If you need a one-line caption, use: FCC agency 027 × Arkansas = $705,127,799.43 across 4,423 awards (obligations, USAspending.gov). That caption already names both join sides and the unit.

All spending ties is an index of joins, not a hidden total that already includes $705,127,799.43. Federal Communications Commission in Arkansas remains the place to verify the live rows. Place-of-performance Arkansas is statewide; it does not split Little Rock from Fayetteville or Fort Smith. Neighbor-coded network construction in Missouri or Texas stays out. Correlation is not causation. Statewide Arkansas includes Little Rock, Fayetteville, and Fort Smith only as reader landmarks. None of those names is a published subtotal. A county or city extract would be a different USAspending query. Federal Communications Commission in Arkansas remains the filtered table for this pair. Arkansas federal spending answers a statewide question that mixes agencies. Federal Communications Commission answers an agency question that mixes states. All spending ties is the catalog of other two-sided pages, not a sum of this cell plus its siblings. Nothing in this packet names a contractor, grantee, laboratory, or borrower. Inventing carriers to explain $705,127,799.43 would break the facts-only rule. If a recipient appears on the overlay, that row is evidence from USAspending.gov, not from this narrative. The source note is unchanged: USAspending.gov aggregate of federal obligations by state and awarding agency. Obligations are not outlays. Repeating $705,127,799.43 as cash already spent in Arkansas is a unit error, not a rounding error.

Questions

How many Federal Communications Commission awards are tagged to Arkansas?

USAspending.gov records $705,127,799.43 in obligations for awarding agency 027 (Federal Communications Commission) with Arkansas place of performance, covering 4,423 awards. That is an obligation total, not an outlay total, and not Federal Communications Commission's nationwide budget.

Are unique carriers listed in this Arkansas extract?

The extract lists 4,423 award actions totaling $705,127,799.43. Average obligation per award is about $159,422.97, a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical universal-service award. Unique carriers are not published here. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Are awards performed in Missouri or Texas included?

No. $705,127,799.43 and 4,423 awards are statewide Arkansas place of performance. This packet does not split Little Rock from Fayetteville or Fort Smith. Awards coded to Missouri or Texas are outside this cell even if mail is handled in Little Rock.

How do I open the Arkansas overlay for agency 027?

Federal Communications Commission in Arkansas is the overlay. Arkansas federal spending shows all agencies in the state. Federal Communications Commission shows agency 027 without a state filter. All spending ties lists other pairs. Original filings remain on the source sites.