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White Papers
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CMOR (Council on Marketing and Opinion Research)
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Universal Service Fees and Telephone Research
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The Universal Service fee (USF) funds a variety of useful programs for rural and low-income
telecommunications, paid for by fees assessed on telecom companies, which the companies then
pass through to telephone users. The USF “Contribution Factor”, which is the percentage of
interstate end-user revenue that telecom companies must pay, changes quarterly depending on
the needs of the programs, as determined by the Universal Service Administrator's quarterly
filings with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). In the 2nd quarter of 2000 the
Universal Service Fee was 5.7%, but has since grown to 11.3% (in the 2nd quarter of 2008).
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Universal Service Fees and Telephone Research (pages: 1)
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