AT&T's Statement to Appear on Customers' Bills Regarding Universal Service Charge.
Source: AT&T.  This document was created by scanning and converting to HTML a fax received from AT&T on May 27, 1998.

AT&T's Universal Service Fund Bill Message

Last year, the FCC set up a new Universal Service Fund to help provide affordable telephone service and give schools and libraries access to advanced services like the Internet.  AT&T must contribute to this Fund and will assess a "Universal Connectivity Charge" (UCC) of about 5% on your monthly bill starting in July.   The FCC has also reduced the fees AT&T pays local phone companies to connect toll calls.  That's one reason our prices have come down over the last decade.   For information about UCC, call 1-800-532-2021.