Supreme Court To Decide Whether Helping Poor Rural Americans Get Broadband Is ‘Unconstitutional’

Techdirt. 2024-12-02

Summary:

The FCC has long run an $8 billion federal subsidy program to help bring phone and broadband services to lower income homes and schools called the Universal Service Fund. The historically bipartisan program has long been funded by a fee on traditional phone lines. But with traditional phone lines dying, there’s been a long, ongoing discussion […]

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Karl Bode

Date tagged:

12/02/2024, 12:21

Date published:

12/02/2024, 08:26