High-cost universal service disbursements to rate-of-return carriers grew by more...
High-cost universal service disbursements to rate-of-return carriers grew by more than 4.4 percent from 2009 to 2010, while disbursements to competitive carriers fell by 4.8 percent, data released by the Universal Service Administrative Co. on Friday showed. Rate-of-return carriers received…
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more than $2 billion in high-cost funds between January and December 2010, compared to $1.9 billion over the same months in 2009, USAC’s data showed. That’s nearly half of last year’s high-cost disbursements, the data showed. Competitive eligible telecom carriers received $1.213 billion in 2010 and $1.274 billion in 2009. In 2008, those CETCs received more than $1 billion in payments. Price cap carriers saw a decrease in their universal service allotments, from $676 million in 2009 to $653 million in 2010, USAC’s data showed. That’s a decline of more than 3 percent. Overall, the fund disbursed nearly $4.3 billion in 2010. More than $3 billion went to incumbents, while some $1.2 billion went to CETCs, USAC’s data showed. The fund shrank slightly from 2009 to 2010, down 0.6 percent.