South Carolina's 3rd District
Funding overview
| Indicator | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total E-Rate subsidies | $2,521,995 | $7,764,250 | $2,074,293 | $4,518,166 | $3,575,953 | $2,888,184 | $2,759,161 | $4,713,210 | $3,117,913 | $1,905,107 |
| Average discount rate | 82% | 81% | 80% | 80% | 81% | 82% | 81% | 69% | 57% | 61% |
| Service providers | 16 | 17 | 15 | 15 | 16 | 24 | 24 | 20 | 30 | 27 |
| Billed entities | 19 | 19 | 18 | 19 | 24 | 19 | 22 | 18 | 22 | 23 |
Subsidies by service type
| Service type | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Voice | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | $32K | $191K | $358K |
| Telecomm Services | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Internal Connections | $1.7M | $2.1M | $1.8M | $3.4M | $2.6M | $2.0M | $1.4M | $1.3M | $2.2M | $836K |
| Data Transmission and/or Internet Access | $745K | $5.5M | $150K | $877K | $784K | $791K | $1.2M | $3.3M | $678K | $674K |
| Basic Maintenance of Internal Connections | — | $28K | $34K | $21K | $111K | $117K | $130K | $66K | — | $30K |
| Managed Internal Broadband Services | $64K | $135K | $100K | $173K | $37K | $3K | $32K | — | — | $6K |
Top billed entities
| Billed entity | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 5-yr Total | Average |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anderson County School Dist 5 | — | $4.9M | — | $277K | $1.2M | — | $8K | $229K | $14K | $31K | $6.4M | $1.3M |
| Oconee Co School District | $604K | $604K | — | $2.0M | $635K | $838K | $745K | $1.0M | $673K | $1.0M | $3.9M | $775K |
| Pickens County School District | $1.2M | $296K | $1.1M | $156K | $139K | $610K | $682K | $2.6M | $1.2M | — | $2.9M | $571K |
| Anderson County School Dist 1 | $186K | $140K | — | $810K | $54K | — | — | $402K | $322K | $106K | $1.2M | $238K |
| Greenwood School District 50 | $349K | $471K | $28K | $21K | $48K | $348K | $75K | $13K | $505K | $43K | $918K | $184K |
| Newberry County School Dist | — | $46K | — | $525K | $196K | $148K | $138K | $266K | $27K | $20K | $767K | $153K |
| Laurens County School Dist 55 | — | $300K | $140K | $26K | $188K | $107K | $245K | $43K | $97K | $59K | $654K | $131K |
| Anderson County Library System | — | $411K | $58K | — | — | — | — | — | — | $4K | $469K | $94K |
| Anderson County School Dist 2 | — | $7K | $172K | $41K | $246K | $49K | $24K | $6K | $17K | $242K | $467K | $93K |
| Edgefield County School District | — | $127K | — | $295K | — | $65K | $101K | — | $192K | $14K | $422K | $84K |
Top service providers
| Service provider | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 5-yr Total | Average |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WCFIBER | $604K | $5.3M | — | $724K | — | — | — | — | — | — | $6.7M | $1.3M |
| Encore Technology Group LLC | $535K | $661K | $28K | $2.4M | $1.3M | $202K | $102K | $767K | $804K | $95K | $4.9M | $979K |
| BridgeTek Solutions LLC | $1.1M | $191K | $1.1M | $420K | $487K | $849K | $447K | $6K | $1.2M | $211K | $3.3M | $658K |
| Applied Network Consulting Group | $27K | $525K | $119K | $61K | $473K | $135K | $239K | — | — | — | $1.2M | $241K |
| A3 Communications, Inc. | — | $46K | — | $525K | $305K | $208K | $311K | $295K | — | $24K | $876K | $175K |
| Conterra Ultra Broadband, LLC | $134K | $134K | $134K | $139K | $139K | $139K | $263K | $2.6M | — | — | $681K | $136K |
| Oconee County, South Carolina | — | — | — | — | $635K | $635K | $726K | $663K | $663K | $663K | $635K | $127K |
| Beam Technologies, LLC | $30K | $99K | $99K | $100K | $85K | $73K | $76K | $66K | — | — | $412K | $82K |
| STEP CG, LLC | — | $274K | $114K | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | $389K | $78K |
| CNIC, Inc. | — | $315K | $26K | $26K | — | $65K | $101K | $247K | $185K | $1K | $367K | $73K |
Each billed entity is assigned to the congressional district (119th Congress boundaries, U.S. Census TIGER/Line 2024) containing the largest number of its recipient sites, located by their USAC-reported coordinates; entities without usable coordinates use the district in their USAC profile. Funding totals are total authorized disbursements (FCC Form 471 FRN Status, USAC dataset qdmp-ygft); speeds are from Recipient Details and Commitments (avi8-svp9); pre-2016 history is from USAC legacy data (1998-2015). Note: the last year or two in any disbursement series always looks artificially low (FY2025 invoices are still being paid) — that’s the real state of USAC’s data, not an error.