Customer subsidies for universal access to telephone and broadband must...
Customer subsidies for universal access to telephone and broadband must provide results at a reasonable cost and more accountability for “the companies that stand to gain,” wrote Simon Ffitch, consumer advocate member of the Federal/State USF Joint Board, in a…
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Seattle Times op-ed. The ABC Plan is contrary to a major goal of the Universal Service Fund revamp -- to ease the burden that customers pay to support the system, he said. The plan would eliminate the states’ authority over consumer protection and to act as watchdogs over the use of funds, he said. The FCC doesn’t have the resources to effectively take over these functions for all the states, he said. The ABC Plan also made no real commitment to make broadband available to unserved and underserved communities, he said.