Universal Service Fund Lifeline obligations in Oklahoma

The Lifeline–Oklahoma pair in USAspending

CFDA 32.003 is titled UNIVERSAL SERVICE FUND - LIFELINE. Filtered to Oklahoma place of performance, obligations sum to $299,442,183 on 69 awards. The national Lifeline hub has no Oklahoma filter. The Oklahoma spending hub has no CFDA filter. This tie is the intersection. $299,442,183 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a count of subsidized lines in Oklahoma.

High Cost, E-Rate, and Rural Health Care sit in other Universal Service Fund catalogs. Mixing them into $299,442,183 would invent a broader USF total than this cell contains. Packet facts are $299,442,183, 69 awards, OK, and 32.003. Correlation is not causation.

Sixty-nine awards are not sixty-nine carriers

The facts report 69 award records, not the identity of eligible telecommunications carriers. A carrier can appear more than once across modifications. Unique recipients are unpublished. 69 is not a census of Oklahoma households enrolled in Lifeline.

A simple mean near $4.34 million per award is arithmetic only. The packet publishes no median, no maximum, and no year field. Do not annualize $299,442,183. Downward modifications, if present in the raw file, are already netted into the supplied total.

Oklahoma geography on the 32.003 tag

OK is the place-of-performance code. A statewide reimbursement can still appear as records tagged to Oklahoma City or another in-state address. Awards coded to Texas, Arkansas, Kansas, or New Mexico stay outside $299,442,183 even when a network spans those borders.

Oklahoma federal spending is the all-program parent. 32.003 is one row on Oklahoma programs. $299.4 million is not the state’s complete federal footprint. Open Universal Service Fund - Lifeline in Oklahoma for the filtered table, CFDA 32.003 for 32.003 without an Oklahoma filter, and All spending ties for other pairs. Do not add those parents into $299,442,183.

What the join does not prove about Lifeline in Oklahoma

A large 32.003 total tagged to Oklahoma does not measure take-up, service quality, or monthly support per household. It does not equal bills paid. FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell. The headline remains $299,442,183 on 69 awards for Universal Service Fund - Lifeline in Oklahoma.

Keep both sides of the join: Universal Service Fund - Lifeline and Oklahoma, obligations only. Quote USAspending.gov and the overlay path rather than a broadband-adoption story. Contractor names are not in the facts and are not invented here.

Using the Oklahoma Lifeline overlay

The overlay target is the Oklahoma × CFDA 32.003 table. Open Universal Service Fund - Lifeline in Oklahoma when you want the same $299,442,183 / 69-award cell in the site’s data chrome. CFDA 32.003 drops the Oklahoma filter. Oklahoma federal spending drops the CFDA filter. Oklahoma programs lists other catalogs beside Lifeline. All spending ties indexes other pairs.

This page exists because two tables meet: a CFDA program and a place-of-performance state. It does not exist to rank Oklahoma against other states, to argue that donations paid for the awards, or to treat obligations as cash. The pair is 32.003 plus OK. Obligations of $299,442,183 are not outlays. Cite Lifeline together with Oklahoma whenever you reuse $299,442,183. 69 remains an award-record count on USAspending.gov. The overlay path is the live table for this 32.003 × OK cell. Later bulk files can restate $299,442,183 without changing the join key. AwardCount stays 69 until a new ingest revises it. Place of performance remains Oklahoma; CFDA remains 32.003. Do not fold High Cost, E-Rate, or Rural Health Care into $299,442,183. Do not treat 69 as a carrier roster. Cite USAspending.gov. Obligations of $299,442,183 are not outlays. The pair is Universal Service Fund - Lifeline plus Oklahoma.

Limits of the packet facts for Oklahoma Lifeline

The packet publishes four numbers and two labels: $299,442,183, 69 awards, Oklahoma, and CFDA 32.003 titled Universal Service Fund - Lifeline. It does not publish fiscal year, unique recipients, subscriber counts, or outlays. Household take-up and monthly support amounts are not in the facts and are not estimated here.

Researchers who need claim-level rows should open the overlay table and USAspending.gov rather than stretch $299,442,183 into a broadband-adoption study. The join is a filter, not a causal claim. FEC files do not explain the 69 awards. Keep Lifeline named with Oklahoma in every reuse of $299,442,183.

Questions

How much Lifeline funding is obligated in Oklahoma?

USAspending records $299,442,183 in CFDA 32.003 obligations with Oklahoma place of performance across 69 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay and not a subscriber count. Keep Universal Service Fund - Lifeline and Oklahoma together when citing $299,442,183.

Is this Oklahoma’s entire Universal Service Fund total?

No. This join is CFDA 32.003 only. Other USF catalogs appear on separate program pages. Nationwide 32.003 is not limited to Oklahoma. Obligations of $299,442,183 are not outlays. The overlay is the live Lifeline–Oklahoma table.

Does 69 awards mean 69 Oklahoma phone companies?

The facts report 69 award records totaling $299,442,183, not carrier identities. Unique recipients are unpublished. A firm can post more than one instrument. 69 is a record count, not a company census. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.

Do FEC donations fund Oklahoma Lifeline awards?

No. Campaign-finance files and USAspending award files are separate. This page reports $299,442,183 in 32.003 obligations tagged to Oklahoma. Correlation is not causation. Do not treat donations as the source of these obligations.