2025 Universal Service Monitoring Report

The 2025 Universal Service Monitoring Report observes the impacts of universal service support mechanisms and the method used to finance them. Initiated by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in 1997, this is the twenty-eighth such report, prepared by federal and state staff members, for the Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service (Universal Service Joint Board). Section 1 of the report provides an update on industry revenues, universal service program funding requirements, and contribution factors. Sections 2 through 5 provide the latest data on the low-income, high-cost, schools and libraries, and rural health care support mechanisms. Section 6 presents recent U.S. Census Bureau and Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data on voice telephony subscribership and expenses taken from the Current Population Survey (CPS), the American Community Survey (ACS), and the Consumer Expenditure Survey (CE), as well as data on telephone subscribership by income by state. It also includes data on residential Internet subscribership and expenses. Section 7 includes updated Consumer Price Index (CPI) data.