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6. What are the current and recent historical remainder, telephone relay, and USF assessment rates?

Current and recent historical remainder and telephone relay assessment rates are shown in Table 1:

Table 1


Assessment

Actual and Advance Remainder and Telephone Relay Assessment Rates
(in Percent) for Various Time Periods

Fall 2006 Bill (Actual FY 06 and Advance FY07
Factors)

Fall 2007 Bill (Actual FY 07 and Advance FY08
Factors)

Fall 2008 Bill
(Actual FY 08 and Advance FY09 Factors)

Fall 2009 Bill
(Actual FY 09 and Advance FY10 Factors)

Fall 2010 Bill
(Actual FY 10 and Advance FY 11 Factors)

Fall 2011 Bill (Actual FY 11 and Advance FY12
Factors)

Remainder –Actual Factor

.088068864

.0984098228

 

.0905701795

 

.0877326002

 

.0936770086

 

.1045689003

Remainder – Advance Factor

.097043081

.1084726341

 

.0997510140

 

.0965330499

 

.1031034284

 

.1156901513

Telephone Relay – Actual Factor

.0895406973

.0713943366

 

.0759167492

 

.0734657406

 

.0743064978

 

.0899465665

Telephone Relay – Advance Factor

.1105883755

.1047648962

 

.0795578743

 

.0737199587

 

.0863944870

 

.0991982114

Utility Trade Practices - Annual Assessment

N/A

N/A

 

N/A

 

.00811793

 

.00708216

 

.00923991

N/A = Not Applicable

 

Recent historical USF assessment rates are shown in Table 2:

Table 2

 

Monthly USF Assessment Rates (in Percent) for Various Time Periods*

USF
Assessment

12/05- 09/06

10/06- 10/07

11/07- 9/08

10/08 - 9/09

10/09-9/10

10/10-9/11

10/11-
Present2

PSCUSF Programs

 

.02534

.02940

.03033

 

.03197

 

.01570

 

.01443

 

.02220

TEACH

.07837

.08275

.08833

.07756

.04218

.04729

.06071

UW-System

.00483

.00504

.00548

.00557

.00281

.00293

.00377

DPI -Newsline, BadgerLink, Library Aids & Contracts

.03589

.02739

.04097

.04036

.10265

.04336

.07092

2 The main reason that these rates are higher than last year is due to the Commission’s decision in docket 5-GF-104, effective October 2011, to exempt wholesale revenues from assessment.