On December 13, 2021, the FCC announced that the proposed contribution factor for the first quarter of 2022 will be 25.2 percent. The contribution factor requires telecommunications companies to pay a percentage of their interstate end-user revenues to the Universal Service Fund. The FCC announcement also “…emphasize that carriers may not markup federal universal service line-item amounts above the contribution factor. Thus, carriers may not, during the first quarter of 2022, recover through a federal universal service line item an amount that exceeds 25.2 percent of the interstate telecommunications charges on a customer’s bill
The FCC’s Proposed First Quarter 2022 Contribution Factor Public Notice can be viewed here
