High-Cost Universal Service Support

The subject information collection is used to determine the amount of, and eligibility for, high-cost universal service support received by incumbent and competitive ETCs. The Commission is proposing to update and modify certain rules, requirements and reporting obligations. The Commission is also proposing to add a requirement for CAF Phase II auction support recipients to certify networks they operated in the prior year meet certain performance requirements, as well as extend the same annual reporting requirements adopted for Phase II auction recipients to New York carriers who receive CAF Phase II support. The Commission is further proposing to modify the reasonable request certification rule to rate-of return ETCs and proposing to adopt a rule requiring price cap or fixed competitive eligible communications carriers receiving phase-down support to certify specific high-cost information. This collection is also being submitted to seek approval of certain changes to Form 481 and its instructions.

The latest form for High-Cost Universal Service Support expires 2023-06-30 and can be found here.

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