Seven high-tech trade groups said they support using phone number...
Seven high-tech trade groups said they support using phone numbers as a basis for Universal Service Fund contributions. A “flat fee on end users based on working telephone numbers” would encourage development of more “innovative technologies,” the groups told…
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the FCC in a Nov. 3 letter. Today’s telephone industry, with its flat-fee “all distance” calling packages, makes the current revenue model “unsustainable,” said the Information Technology Industry Council, Semiconductor Industry Assn., Business Software Alliance, Technology Network, Assn. for Competitive Technology, VON Coalition and NetCoalition. “The case for a numbers-based contribution methodology is compelling,” the groups said. They said a numbers-based approach would bring sustainability, efficiency, “protection of innovation,” competitive neutrality and, for consumers, ease of use and predictability.