Federal Communications Commission federal obligations in Texas

A high-count FCC file on Texas

Federal Communications Commission as awarding agency, Texas as place-of-performance: 14,627 records summing to $3,552,442,234.48. A Federal Communications Commission award coded outside TX is out. An award in Texas from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Texas (TX) excludes New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana. An Oklahoma City-coded award is OK even if a tower sits near the line.

Fourteen thousand six hundred twenty-seven awards is a high-count FCC file. Recurring universal-service style rows can thicken a list without each row being a new licensee. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 14,627 as 14,627 unique broadband subscribers, unique licenses, or tower counts. The overlay Federal Communications Commission in Texas is the both-keys table. Texas federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Federal Communications Commission is the agency book without a TX filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

This packet does not name USF, E-Rate, or Rural Digital Opportunity as line items inside $3,552,442,234.48. Correlation is not causation: Texas did not “cause” $3,552,442,234.48 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 027 × TX only.

Award rows are not unique licenses

$3,552,442,234.48 does not measure broadband subscribers, unique licenses, or tower counts. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 027 and a TX place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 14,627 awards as a census of broadband subscribers, unique licenses, or tower counts. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Texas federal spending or Federal Communications Commission matched $3,552,442,234.48 and 14,627, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Oklahoma, Louisiana, and New Mexico FCC joins are other pairs, not addends.

Texas, not a spectrum-map rollup

Place of performance TX is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Texas (TX) excludes New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana. An Oklahoma City-coded award is OK even if a tower sits near the line. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

This packet does not name USF, E-Rate, or Rural Digital Opportunity as line items inside $3,552,442,234.48. This packet does not split $3,552,442,234.48 by city, county, or named facility. 14,627 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract.

Program stock versus cash already paid

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $3,552,442,234.48 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Texas confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Texas’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 14,627-award USAspending file leaves this series. No fiscal year is published in this packet, so this page does not invent one. Keep the obligation label on $3,552,442,234.48.

Citing FCC in Texas

Cite USAspending.gov: Federal Communications Commission (agency 027) obligated $3,552,442,234.48 on 14,627 awards coded to Texas. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as broadband subscribers, unique licenses, or tower counts.

Prefer Federal Communications Commission in Texas if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Texas federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to TX. Federal Communications Commission is the 027 parent without the TX filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $3,552,442,234.48.

A usable footnote names Federal Communications Commission, Texas, $3,552,442,234.48, and 14,627. The compact headline $3.55 billion is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $242,869 is $3,552,442,234.48 divided by 14,627. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

How much has the Federal Communications Commission obligated in Texas?

USAspending.gov records $3,552,442,234.48 across 14,627 awards with awarding agency 027 and a Texas tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of broadband subscribers, unique licenses, or tower counts. Federal Communications Commission in Texas is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $3,552,442,234.48.

Is $3,552,442,234.48 a measure of broadband subscribers, unique licenses, or tower counts?

No. The packet publishes $3,552,442,234.48 and 14,627 awards for agency 027 inside TX coding. Those other series are unpublished here. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote the dollar total and the award count together. Obligations are not outlays.

Why does this FCC file have 14,627 awards?

That is the award-record count for 027 × TX. Combined with $3,552,442,234.48, the average is about $242,869. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 14,627 is not unique broadband subscribers, unique licenses, or tower counts. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live table?

Federal Communications Commission in Texas is the overlay. Texas federal spending and Federal Communications Commission are the parents, not addends. All spending ties lists other pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $3,552,442,234.48. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.