Rural Health Care: Universal Service Support by U.S. service provider

The statistic depicts the Universal Service Payments received by service provider type in the rural health care sector of the United States. In 2008, Internet Service Providers were provided from Universal Service Payments in amount of 541.000 U.S. dollars.

Universal Service Payments received by service provider type in the rural health care sector of the United States in 2008 (in 1,000 U.S. dollars)

Characteristic	Received payments (in thousand U.S. dollars)
Long Distance Providers ****	29,972
Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers	7,266
Competitive Local Exchange Carriers ***	5,129
Wireless Providers **	2,629
Non-Traditional Providers *	1,416
Internet Service Providers	541
Other Providers	2,505

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Release date

September 2010

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United States

Survey time period

2008

Supplementary notes

* Non-traditional providers provide eligible software, hardware, and network devices.
** Wireless providers include cellular, PCS, SMR, wireless data and other mobile providers. All CETC disbursement from Low-Income are assigned to wireless providers.
*** Competitie local exchange carriers include competitive access providers, local resale, other local and shared tenant service providers. All CETC disbursement from Low-Income are assigned to wireless providers.
**** Long distance providers include interexchange, operator service, toll resale, pre-paid card and other toll providers.
Other providers' services include paging and messaging, payphone service provider, A38private service and satellite service.

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