What is the Federal Universal Service Fund Fee?
Cox Local Customers with Cox Long Distance The Federal Universal Service Charge supports the Federal Universal Service Fund. The Universal Service Fund (USF) provides federally subsidized access to modern telecommunications facilities and information services for schools, libraries, and eligible rural health care facilities. It helps ensure that customers with limited incomes or living in high cost service areas continue to have access to the telephone network. Cox, like other long distance service providers, contributes to the federal USF and recovers contributions to this fund through a monthly charge called the Universal Service Fund. This charge is 9.5% of interstate and international long distance revenues. Additionally, Cox also recovers the separate contribution that Cox, as the local service provider, must make to the Federal Universal Service Fund to ensure that every customer is linked to the telephone network and is able to make and receive long distance calls. This charge i
