USF Lifeline awarded by Federal Communications Commission

USF Lifeline overlapping FCC — CFDA 32.003

The pair is Universal Service Fund - Lifeline × Federal Communications Commission. $4,106,961,717.80 is the obligation aggregate for rows that carry both CFDA 32.003 and awarding-agency 027. The join obligation $4,106,961,717.80 exceeds the CFDA program total of $4,044,449,350.80 in this extract. This page does not invent a reconciliation; both figures are packet facts for USF Lifeline and Federal Communications Commission. Correlation is not causation: the join does not prove that Federal Communications Commission caused USF Lifeline activity, only that USAspending coded the two keys together. It is not a telecom-carrier ranking or a named provider roster.

SpendingVault indexes the cell from USAspending.gov. The catalog title on the program side is UNIVERSAL SERVICE FUND - LIFELINE. The agency name on the awarding side is Federal Communications Commission. Neither label is a contractor, a place of performance, or a fiscal-year stamp — this packet publishes no fiscal year. Cite $4,106,961,717.80 as obligations on the USF Lifeline–FCC pair.

CFDA 32.003 as the Lifeline USF side

CFDA 32.003 is the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance identifier for Universal Service Fund - Lifeline. The program-wide obligation total in this extract is $4,044,449,350.80. That figure is a program rollup, not a second headline for the Federal Communications Commission slice unless the two amounts match. Do not treat $4,044,449,350.80 as cash Treasury already sent. Carriers, subscriber counts, and household identifiers are unpublished on this packet.

Agency 027, Federal Communications Commission

Federal Communications Commission is awarding-agency 027 on USAspending assistance rows. The agency hub Federal Communications Commission at /agencies/027/ rolls up every program that agency awards in the index, not only USF Lifeline. Reading $4,106,961,717.80 as Federal Communications Commission’s entire book would over-read this cell. The join is one CFDA inside one agency, not a department budget justification.

Do not add Federal Election Commission contribution totals to $4,106,961,717.80. Campaign-finance receipts and USAspending award obligations are separate public-record systems even when a geography or a calendar year happens to overlap. This packet has no FEC facts.

2,144 awards as a CFDA table, not a subscriber census

The extract lists 2,144 awards on the USF Lifeline × Federal Communications Commission table. That is an award-record count, not a census of subscribers. Unique recipients are unpublished. Modifications can add rows without naming a new organization. Dividing $4,106,961,717.80 by 2,144 is not published here as a typical award size, because the packet does not say the rows are comparable.

2,144 is the award-record count on this extract, not a published census of subscribers. Unique vendors and places of performance are unpublished. Do not read 2,144 as 2,144 finished projects in USF Lifeline.

Subscriber rankings this Lifeline–FCC join cannot support

An obligation is a legal commitment. An outlay is a payment. $4,106,961,717.80 is the former. Citing it as cash already cleared on USF Lifeline over-reads the field. The join cannot say that Federal Communications Commission specialized in USF Lifeline because of a policy success metric this packet omits. Keep $4,106,961,717.80 labeled as Universal Service Fund - Lifeline obligations awarded by Federal Communications Commission.

Hubs for CFDA 32.003 × agency 027

Open /programs/32.003/ for CFDA 32.003, /agencies/027/ for Federal Communications Commission, /programs/ (All programs) for other catalog lines, and /ties/ (All spending ties) for other pairs. None of those links convert this cell into a telecom-carrier ranking or a named provider roster, into outlays this packet omits, or into a contractor list. Cite both sides: Universal Service Fund - Lifeline and Federal Communications Commission, $4,106,961,717.80, USAspending.gov, obligations only.

Keep the citation narrow: CFDA 32.003 and awarding-agency 027 on USAspending.gov, obligations only, with no invented recipients. Carriers, subscriber counts, and household identifiers are unpublished on this packet.

Questions

How much did Federal Communications Commission award on Universal Service Fund - Lifeline?

USAspending.gov records $4,106,961,717.80 in Universal Service Fund - Lifeline obligations awarded by Federal Communications Commission (CFDA 32.003, agency 027) across 2,144 awards. That is an obligation aggregate for the pair, not an outlay and not Federal Communications Commission’s entire book.

Is USF Lifeline via the FCC cash already credited to households?

No. $4,106,961,717.80 is an obligation sum, not an outlay. Payments from the Treasury can lag or differ. This packet has no outlay total for USF Lifeline awarded by Federal Communications Commission. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.

Does 2,144 awards mean 2,144 subscribers?

No. 2,144 is an award-record count, not a census of subscribers. Unique recipients and places of performance are unpublished. Modifications can add rows without a new organization. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov. Keep both the CFDA number and the awarding-agency code in the citation.

Which pages parent USF Lifeline and FCC?

/programs/32.003/ is the program parent. /agencies/027/ is the Federal Communications Commission parent. /programs/ lists programs. /ties/ lists other pairs. Prefer those tables after later ingests; this page quotes USF Lifeline × FCC at $4,106,961,717.80.