The FCC unanimously voted to completely overhaul the Universal Service Fund (“USF”) last Thursday, in a move that marks a historic change in policy for the Commission. Part of a telephone subsidy regime that stretches back to 1934, the USF was established in 1997 to help expand telephone service into rural areas. The funds from the program came from what amounted to a tax on telephone service, with the fund capped at $4.5 billion a year.
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Recent Development: Metered-Usage Billing and the Broadband Internet Fairness Act
NC JOLT Online Edition, Volume 11, Page 214 (June 2010)
Abstract
Several metered-usage pricing schemes for broadband Internet are struggling or have already failed, with each experiencing large amounts of end-user backlash. The problem with price experiments is the severity of user backlash in response to even minimal tests of new schemes. Users often perceive pricing tests as threats to low-cost broadband, but Internet Service Providers want to please their customers while profiting from their trade. U.S.
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