What is the Universal Service Fund (USF) fee?
The Universal Service Fund (USF) is maintained by the 1996 Telecommunications Act to promote the availability of telecommunications services to all citizens of the United States. The USF fee is the financing mechanism that supports this mandate. SouthernLINC Wireless remits payments to the Universal Service Administrative company, who administers this fund on behalf of the FCC. The amount a customer may pay for this fee is related to the amount of interstate telecommunications services used by the customer in a given month. Most customers should expect to pay a fee between 0.69% and 1.81% of the telecommunications service charges on their phone bills.
