The FCC should impose a date certain for the end...
The FCC should impose a date certain for the end of the high-cost Universal Service Fund, the Free State Foundation said in reply comments on a rulemaking on the future of USF and intercarrier compensation. The fund imposes a 15…
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percent “tax” on all long distance calls to support universal service subsidies, the group said. “The Commission’s end game for its comprehensive USF and ICC reforms should be the eventual elimination of all high-cost fund and related subsidies,” the foundation said. “Placing a hard cap on the high-cost fund and lowering it over time in tandem with a decreasing fund size constitutes a realistic means for achieving that end."