Universal Service Fund High Cost obligations 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.

Wisconsin’s 32.002 cell versus the statewide stack

Wisconsin’s state hub stacks every CFDA with performance coded to the state. USF High Cost is an FCC line. $1,346,396,440.76 is not Wisconsin’s all-program total. The nationwide CFDA 32.002 page includes every state, so it is not this cell.

Place-of-performance for High Cost support can sit on Wisconsin even when a carrier is incorporated elsewhere. This packet does not reallocate dollars to study areas. Read the overlay as a coding view of 96 awards.

Obligations versus carrier draws

The $1,346,396,440.76 figure is an obligation sum. USF disbursements can trail or split across months. SpendingVault does not publish a 32.002-in-Wisconsin outlay total in this packet. Mixing FCC map locations or speed-test statistics with this award file leaves the USAspending series.

Cite the join as CFDA 32.002 × Wisconsin, $1,346,396,440.76, 96 awards, obligations only.

Parent hubs

The Wisconsin × Universal Service Fund - High Cost overlay is the table view. Recipient slices on that hub still sum toward $1,346,396,440.76 on 96 awards. The Wisconsin spending page and the CFDA 32.002 program page are the parents. The Wisconsin programs index and the ties index list other pairs.

None of those links convert the cell into fiber miles or into outlays this packet omits.

What Wisconsin USF High Cost is not

Universal Service Fund High Cost support in Wisconsin is not a ranking of Northwoods exchanges and not a count of fiber miles. The $1,346,396,440.76 figure is the CFDA 32.002 × Wisconsin cell. Ninety-six awards describe carrier-support filing, not 96 cooperatives. Legacy High Cost and newer support mechanisms that still carry 32.002 are not split in this packet.

A thicker tape than Minnesota’s 86-award High Cost cell does not mean Wisconsin’s rural network is “larger.” It means more prime records. Cite 32.002 and Wisconsin together, keep the obligation label, and keep the 96-award count. Monthly USF disbursements can split across the obligation window. Later bulk files can revise both dollars and the record count.

Wisconsin’s High Cost cell also does not include study-area maps, CAF/ACAM election flags, or locations passed. Those series live with the FCC and USAC. SpendingVault cites USAspending.gov obligations only: CFDA 32.002 × Wisconsin, $1,346,396,440.76, 96 awards. If a later extract revises the 96-row tape, the implied mean near $14,024,964 moves with it. Quote the packet facts and the overlay path rather than a fiber-mile story.

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.