tensorust/usf-high-cost-support-trend-sample

USF High-Cost Support by Carrier: free sample (Tensorust LLC)

Monthly Universal Service Fund High-Cost support for every study area since 2024, with the last 12 months against the 12 before.

Headline: High-Cost support paid to carriers fell from $4.55B to $4.40B year over year, and 837 study areas lost money.

This repository is a free teaser, not the dataset. It holds 25 example rows and a summary table with no names in it. The full file has 157,257 rows and is sold by Tensorust LLC: https://tensorust.com/datasets/usf-high-cost-support-trend/.

Files here

file	what it is
sample.csv	25 rows of the full file (the same sample shown on tensorust.com)
summary_by_state.csv	row counts and totals by state across the full file, no entity names (groups with fewer than 3 rows are folded into "Other")

Summary by state (largest groups)

State	rows	Support (USD)
IA	16,817	-3,621,041
MN	7,997	-1,129,678
TX	7,302	-7,359,400
WI	6,983	-3,511,425
OK	5,735	-4,960,194
IL	5,465	-3,616,959
MO	5,199	-1,684,305
KS	4,827	-5,865,493
NE	4,497	-1,492,895
IN	4,383	-6,036,299
OH	4,208	-491,899
MI	4,175	-1,533,289
TOTAL	157,257	-105,045,654

Full table: summary_by_state.csv.

What the full file has

• 157,257 rows
• Key fields: sac, spin, study_area_name, state, holding_company, fund, period, year, month, current_month_capped_support
• Parquet and CSV, a README with sources, method and limits, and the build script
• Free 25-row sample (no personal contact data)

Coverage: 157,257 study-area, fund and month rows for 3,388 study areas paid High-Cost support Jan 2024 to Sep 2026; study_area_trend.csv rolls up 2,117 study areas with a trailing-12-month figure. USAC data fetched Nov 6 2026; latest month 2026-09.

Columns in the full file

column	meaning
sac	USAC study area code, service provider id, name, state
spin	USAC study area code, service provider id, name, state
study_area_name	USAC study area code, service provider id, name, state
state	USAC study area code, service provider id, name, state
holding_company	Holding company from USAC CAF deployment filings when known
fund	High-Cost fund (BLS, HCL, ICC, ACAM, EACAM, RDOF, CAF II AUC, Mobility, etc.)
period	Disbursement month
year	Disbursement month
month	Disbursement month
current_month_capped_support	Support before and after the budget cap
current_month_uncapped_support	Support before and after the budget cap
prior_period_adjustment	Adjustments
current_month_cap_adjustment	Adjustments
previous_period_cap_adjustment	Adjustments
current_period_phase_down	Adjustments
previous_period_phase_down	Adjustments
final_payment	Amount paid that month
bc_total_adj_amt	Adjustments
ttm_final_payment	Trailing 12 months to 2026-09 vs the 12 months before, per study area and fund
prior_ttm_final_payment	Trailing 12 months to 2026-09 vs the 12 months before, per study area and fund
ttm_change	Trailing 12 months to 2026-09 vs the 12 months before, per study area and fund
ttm_change_pct	Trailing 12 months to 2026-09 vs the 12 months before, per study area and fund
latest_month_payment	Payment in 2026-09
ontology_org_id	Tensorust Ontology Organization

Get the full file

tier	price	includes
State or carrier slice	$900	Every study area in up to 3 states or 10 holding companies, monthly by fund since Jan 2024, with the trailing-12-month change. CSV and Excel.
National file	$3,500	All 3,388 study areas and 157,257 monthly rows, the study-area rollup, and one refresh after the next USAC disbursement month.
Yearly license with monthly refresh	$9,000 a year	The file rebuilt each month as USAC posts disbursements, drops and phase-downs flagged, for carrier finance teams, lenders and consultants. Internal use, unlimited seats.

Email mattbusel@tensorust.com with the tier and a billing contact, and we will send a proper invoice (ACH or card). The file is delivered once the invoice is paid. Details and the live sample: https://tensorust.com/datasets/usf-high-cost-support-trend/. All datasets: https://tensorust.com/datasets/

Method and limits

Load monthly disbursements and cast amounts to numbers. Attach holding company from CAF filings. Sum final payments per study area and fund for the trailing 12 months and the prior 12. study_area_trend.csv has one row per study area across funds.

Not a forecast of future support or of FCC rule changes. Not Lifeline, E-Rate or Rural Health Care. Holding company is filled only where the carrier files CAF deployment data.

Sources

• USAC Open Data High Cost disbursements (dataset 54bu-6jcj, 2024 onward), https://opendata.usac.org/d/54bu-6jcj
• USAC CAF deployment and support filings (dataset hghw-69cg) for holding companies, https://opendata.usac.org/d/hghw-69cg
• Tensorust Ontology Organization objects

License

The sample and summary here are free to view, analyze and cite with attribution to "Tensorust LLC, https://tensorust.com/datasets/usf-high-cost-support-trend/". The full dataset is licensed separately per tier. No resale or redistribution of Tensorust data without a written license.

Tensorust LLC, Tuckahoe NY. mattbusel@tensorust.com | https://tensorust.com