Free Press asked the FCC to make universal, affordable broadband ...
Free Press asked the FCC to make universal, affordable broadband “a priority” as it revamps Universal Service Fund and Intercarrier compensation rules, most likely at the Nov. 4 meeting. “The current systems of intercarrier compensation and universal service subsidies…
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are inefficient and tied to yesterday’s technology. Reform is inevitable, but it must be done properly,” said Ben Scott, Free Press policy director. “We need bold FCC action to cut through the self-interested rhetoric of industry proposals from both sides to find the right solution for consumers.” Free Press said in a Monday letter to the FCC that consumers inevitably will pay more for phone service -- rates that the FCC must justify. “Having made this case, the Commission must treat this need to reform ICC as an opportunity to modernize the outdated universal service system,” the group said. “The Commission must ensure that as a result of the changes to ICC, that the short-term ‘pain’ of reform will be followed by long-term consumer benefits in the form of universal affordable broadband.”