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USF: Uncle Sam’s Blank check – Fred Goldstein picks apart everyone’s favorite slush fund
In: Communication|Computer|Hardware|Site Feeds|Software|VoIP
22 Dec 2008
Fred Goldstein has an interesting read on the dysfunction that is the Universal Service Fund (USF), which you pay into via your VoIP and phone bills. While it’s intended to be a way to bring telecom services to schools and rural communities, it has long been a poorly managed slush fund. “If the best-laid plans often go astray,” asks Goldstein, “what happens to sloppily-laid plans that are not even carefully supervised?” You’ll see a number of proposals next year to expand the USF to cover broadband in 2009, many of which probably won’t bother to reform the system first.
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