Where do the federal SLC and FUSC fees go?
A. Both the SLC and FUSC fees collected from customers by Chesnee Telephone go to federal administrative agencies created by the FCC to oversee and manage the funds. The federal SLC fees are re-distributed to local companies based on their specific costs, to enable community based companies serving high-cost rural areas to recover some of the costs of the facilities they use to connect your home or business for service. The FUSC fees collected from customers allow Chesnee Telephone to recover the costs it is assessed by the administrator of federal universal service support. For most residential and single-line business customers, the FUSC is currently $0.66 per line, and for multi-line businesses, the FUSC is $0.93 per line. A portion of the funds collected from the Federal Universal Service Charge is distributed to keep rates in high-cost rural areas at or near the national average.
