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Any delay in FCC approval of a Universal Service Fund...

Any delay in FCC approval of a Universal Service Fund overhaul would be disappointing, said Free State Foundation President Randolph May. “But if a few days delay means more, rather than less, meaningful reform, I can live with it,” he…

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said in an email. “In the meantime, I'd like to see Chairman [Julius] Genachowski use his bully pulpit to explain the stakes to the American consumer this way: ‘Folks, the only way to reduce the 15 percent tax that now applies to all your long distance calls is to reduce the amount of subsidies now going to support inefficient rural telephone companies using outdated technologies.'"