Changes to the Universal Service Fund under consideration by the...
Changes to the Universal Service Fund under consideration by the FCC “could undermine telephone service including broadband service in rural areas,” former Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., said in a Tuesday op-ed for MinnPost.com. “The FCC is talking about ‘reforming’ or…
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eliminating the funds that help communications providers (both wire-line and wireless) finance the commitments they have made to connect our remote and rural areas,” said Dorgan, now an adviser to telcos at Sidley Austin. “Small rural telephone companies rely on those funds to finance the networks they have built and to build out new broadband service to rural areas. Eliminating that support would be devastating to some rural areas."