Okla. Pact Seeks $1.85 Connections-Based USF Surcharge
Oklahoma USF (OUSF) stakeholders agreed to a $1.85 per-connection surcharge, said a settlement filed Monday at the Oklahoma Corporation Commission (docket OSF2022-000045). With $82.5 million in contributions expected to be needed for OUSF in funding year 2022-23, plus a $20.5…
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million deficit balance, the state would have needed to assess a nearly 21% surcharge under the previous revenue-based mechanism, it said. Payments should start Dec. 15 based on the number of connections of each contributing provider Oct. 31, it said. The agreement included OUSF Administrator Mark Argenbright, the Oklahoma attorney general's office, CTIA, Cox, Windstream, Consolidated Communications and Atlas Telephone. Oklahoma implemented connections-based contribution last November.