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December 30, 2010 Mark Wigfield 202-418-0253
Email: mark.wigfield@fcc.gov
FEDERAL-STATE UNIVERSAL SERVICE JOINT BOARD STAFF RELEASES 
MONITORING REPORT
Comprehensive Report Tracks Trends Related to Universal Service  
Washington, D.C. – The staff of the Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service has 
released its most recent Monitoring Report on Universal Service.  This report contains
information designed to monitor the impact of various universal service support mechanisms, 
and the methods used to finance them, based on data filed by the telephone industry with the 
Federal Communications Commission through October 2010.  This report, with a few 
exceptions, reflects data filed with the FCC by the telephone industry for the year 2009 and prior 
years, and projections for 2010.
A monitoring program was established in the mid-1980's, at the recommendation of the 
Separations Joint Board, to track trends related to universal service and related matters.  Since 
then, Joint Board staff prepared Monitoring Reports at least once a year -- a compendium of 
statistical data on subscribership and penetration, loop costs, separations factors, universal 
service fund payments, etc.  The report is the only Commission document that includes 
information on every incumbent local telephone company in the nation.  In 1998, the publication 
of this report was moved from the Separations Joint Board staff to the Universal Service Joint 
Board staff.  This is the fourteenth Monitoring Report from the Universal Service Joint Board 
staff.
The report may be downloaded at http://www.fcc.gov/wcb/iatd/stats.html.  The 
document is also available for public inspection and copying during regular business hours at the 
FCC Reference Information Center, Portals II, 445 12th Street, SW, Room CY-A257, 
Washington, DC 20554.  Copies may be purchased from the Commission's duplicating 
contractor, Best Copy and Printing, Inc., Portals II, 445 12th Street, SW, Room CY-B402, 
Washington, DC 20554, telephone 202-488-5300 or 1-800-378-3160, facsimile 202-488-5563, 
TTY 202-488-5562, or via e-mail at fcc@bcpiweb.com.
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Wireline Competition Bureau contact:  James Eisner at (202) 418-0940; TTY (202) 418-0484.
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