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Economic Impact of the Imposition of a Universal Service Fund Obligation on Cloud Services in the United States

PublishedJune 2, 2025
Written By
  • Raul Katz
This report was prepared for CCIA with funding from Amazon Web Services. All of the study’s content, including its conclusions, are the independent outcome of the analysis conducted solely by the author and Telecom Advisory Services.

A new study finds that a proposal to impose Universal Service fund fees on cloud services would increase cloud prices, drive cost-push inflation, reduce cloud adoption, reduce national GDP, reduce each state's GDP, and decrease capex on infrastructure by cloud service providers.

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