AT&T and Verizon pushed for numbers-based Universal Service Fund ...
AT&T and Verizon pushed for numbers-based Universal Service Fund contribution, in a meeting Wednesday with the Wireline Bureau, according to an ex parte. They filed a joint plan detailing how a numbers regime would work. A numbers scheme would…
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base USF contribution on the quantity of phone numbers the carrier owns. Currently, the FCC collects USF based on interstate revenue. AT&T and Verizon’s proposal “will benefit consumers, stabilize the universal service contribution base, and significantly reduce the administrative cost and complexity of [USF] contribution for the FCC,” Universal Service Administrative Co. and contributors, the carriers said.