Universal Service Fund - High Cost federal funding in Alaska

Alaska × 32.002 is a High Cost USF join, not a subscriber census

This page pairs CFDA 32.002, UNIVERSAL SERVICE FUND - HIGH COST, with Alaska place of performance. Universal Service Fund - High Cost, as named on the catalog line, is the listing on one side of the join; Alaska (AK) is the geography tag on the other. SpendingVault sums tagged obligations: $717,433,732.82 on 31 awards. The extract does not list subscriber counts, carrier names, or village-by-village coverage. Treat the pair as a catalog intersection, not a ranking of which state needs the program more, and not a claim that 31 awards equal that many Alaska telephone companies. Alaska (AK) is not the lower 48. Washington, Oregon, and Hawaii 32.002 cells are other pairs. Bush-versus-Railbelt folklore is not a published split of this tag.

Other listings — other Universal Service listings such as Schools and Libraries or Rural Health Care rows on different CFDA numbers — sit outside $717,433,732.82 unless they also carry 32.002. Mixing USF High Cost with those rows would invent a combined figure the packet never computed. Correlation between this obligation sum and rural broadband maps is not causation. Those statistics are not in the packet. Place of performance as Alaska locates the tagged awards; it does not deposit $717,433,732.82 in the state treasury, and it does not prove every dollar stayed inside Alaska after subawards. fiber-to-the-village stories is not a published cut of this extract.

31 awards behind the Alaska 32.002 total

Award count is a row count of assistance awards, including possible continuations and modifications. It is not a census of Alaska broadband subscribers or miles of fiber. a thin high-cost file: a few dozen rows beside a large obligation total. Mean obligation is about $23.14 million if $717,433,732.82 were divided evenly across thirty-one lines — a mechanical ratio, not a typical payment published by the agency.

High Cost is the listing title. This page will not relabel the cell as a statewide broadband grant or as every Universal Service mechanism. Thirty-one awards remain 32.002 rows tagged to AK. Thirty-one awards are scannable on the overlay. This page will not invent recipient names. Open Universal Service Fund - High Cost in Alaska for the stored table. Do not convert 31 into a map of Alaska telephone companies. The $717,433,732.82 total remains an obligation rollup on tagged awards.

High Cost obligations are not bills already paid to carriers

Assistance awards often obligate to a state or recipient and draw as activities proceed. The $717,433,732.82 headline is the obligation sum, not carrier support already deposited, and not a Treasury outlay total. No fiscal year is attached. An agency table dated to a particular year is not automatically this join unless it uses CFDA 32.002, Alaska geography, and the obligation metric.

The listing title is Universal Service Fund - High Cost. This extract does not split activity types inside $717,433,732.82. Those cuts would require award documentation beyond the packet facts. High Cost is the listing title. This page will not relabel the cell as a statewide broadband grant or as every Universal Service mechanism. Thirty-one awards remain 32.002 rows tagged to AK.

What the Alaska USF High Cost table omits

The extract has no subscriber counts, carrier names, or village-by-village coverage. Facts remain $717,433,732.82, thirty-one awards, CFDA 32.002, and Alaska. This page will not invent a ranking against other states' 32.002 joins. Alaska (AK) is not the lower 48. Washington, Oregon, and Hawaii 32.002 cells are other pairs. Bush-versus-Railbelt folklore is not a published split of this tag.

Alaska federal spending and Alaska programs place 32.002 among other listings. CFDA 32.002 is the national catalog line. All spending ties indexes other CFDA × state pairs. Mixing those shelves would invent a share of federal spending the packet never computed. The $717,433,732.82 figure is the tagged pair only.

Where the 32.002 × Alaska overlay lives

Start with Universal Service Fund - High Cost in Alaska for the table behind $717,433,732.82. CFDA 32.002 is the nationwide listing. Alaska federal spending and Alaska programs give state context. All spending ties is the shelf for other program-by-state joins on the same obligation metric. Thirty-one awards totaling $717,433,732.82 remain a thin high-cost file: a few dozen rows beside a large obligation total, not a census of Alaska broadband subscribers or miles of fiber. Subscriber counts, carrier names, or village-by-village coverage are not in this packet. Outlays, remaining balances, and fiscal-year splits are omitted because they are not in the facts. Use the overlay for named award lines as USAspending stored them.

SpendingVault's extract for this join publishes two quantities: $717,433,732.82 in obligations and thirty-one awards. Everything else on this page is a description of what those two numbers are and are not. CFDA 32.002 is the catalog code; Alaska is the place-of-performance state. The page does not add a fiscal year, a recipient roster, or a share of Alaska spending, because those figures are not in the packet. If a dashboard elsewhere shows a different USF High Cost total, it may be using outlays, a different year, or a different geography. Those alternatives are not this join unless they use the same CFDA, the same state field, and the same obligation metric. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

How much USF High Cost is obligated in Alaska?

USAspending.gov shows $717,433,732.82 in obligations for CFDA 32.002 with Alaska as place of performance, across thirty-one awards. The sum is a commitment total on assistance awards, not outlays and not the state's entire federal-spending total. Other listings are outside this join unless they also carry 32.002.

Do 31 awards mean 31 Alaska telecom carriers?

No. Award count is a row count of assistance awards and can include continuations. It is not a census of Alaska broadband subscribers or miles of fiber. The packet does not name recipients. See Universal Service Fund - High Cost in Alaska for named lines as USAspending stored them. Unique Alaska telephone companies are unpublished.

Is this every Universal Service dollar tagged to Alaska?

No. The join is CFDA 32.002 crossed with Alaska place of performance. Related programs on other CFDA numbers are not inside $717,433,732.82 unless the award also carries 32.002. other Universal Service listings such as Schools and Libraries or Rural Health Care rows on different CFDA numbers. Mixing those rows would invent a combined figure the packet never computed.

Is the USF High Cost total already paid in Alaska?

Not on this metric. Obligations are recorded commitments on assistance awards. Outlays are payments from the Treasury. The $717,433,732.82 headline is the obligation rollup in SpendingVault's extract. Completed activity and remaining balances are not published in this packet.