The FCC’s Universal Service Fund reform “reflects yesterday’s logic” and...
The FCC’s Universal Service Fund reform “reflects yesterday’s logic” and is “fundamentally wrong for our time,” Aspen Institute scholar Blair Levin told a symposium in Charlotte, N.C., Monday. The Connect America Fund, approved by the commission last month (CD Nov…
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4 p8), “focuses us on how to deliver a subsidy” when it “should focus us on how to deliver high-performance services,” Levin said. “In sum, we need to refocus government’s efforts from the view that its prime purpose is to lower rates for wireline telephone users in rural areas with the purpose of increasing the value of digitally delivered services -- particularly essential public services like education, public safety, job training and healthcare -- for the economy and society,” Levin said. FCC officials didn’t comment.