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en102
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1 edit | have their cake and eat it too AT&T and Verizon just want to have their cake and eat it too. USF/FUSF is a slush fund that should be stopped or at least made accountable. We all know that will never happen.
Telco's have lobbied in and sued in some cases when they were not able to deploy their upgrades... do we really think AT&T and Verizon _need_ USF funding - they have enough. | |
|  jafo1972
join:2004-04-15
Chicago, IL | Re: have their cake and eat it too Funds provided by the USF are being audited. I know for sure. I don't know why people think the FCC is not tracking those funds. | |
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sporkme
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| Re: have their cake and eat it too said by jafo1972  :Funds provided by the USF are being audited. I know for sure. I don't know why people think the FCC is not tracking those funds. It is public money, so please, point us all to where we can get these figures from the FCC.  | |
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join:2001-10-05
Rockville, MD
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| said by jafo1972 :Funds provided by the USF are being audited. I know for sure. I don't know why people think the FCC is not tracking those funds. if I remember correctly, the funds have been audited before, horrible problems were found and nothing was done.
people don't think the FCC is tracking these funds because there are mountains of evidence of waste, fraud and abuse and the FCC never does anything that makes any difference (if they are doing anything at all). | |
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Karl Bode
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join:2000-03-02 | Re: have their cake and eat it too The GAO completed the audit, the FCC said they'd look into it, and nothing has changed. | |
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John T
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| From what I can tell from this, AT&T and Verizon are trying to stop or decrease the slush fund. Much of the "slush fund" consists of termination fees that AT&T and Verizon pay to the small telcos each time a call is terminated in the rural areas. By regulation, the small telcos get a much higher per minute fee.
The big guys seem to be arguing that the payments that they make to the rural telcos should be decreased and brought closer in line to the standard fees. So, yeah, they are arguing that it should be stopped. Unsurprisingly, really-- a lot of the USF funds consist of taking money from Verizon and AT&T and giving it to the rural telcos. Of course, Verizon and AT&T pass much of the fees on to their own customers. | |
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4 edits | Re: have their cake and eat it too quote:
From what I can tell from this, AT&T and Verizon are trying to stop or decrease the slush fund.
You repeat this six times in these comments, but it's just not accurate. They want a bigger share of the "slush fund" pie, and could care less about seeing the system managed properly or the payouts reduced. Again, unless you'd like to try and sell me on the idea that a telco lobbyist and PR man like Tauke is really interested in philathropy and not pleasing investors.... | |
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en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA | Re: have their cake and eat it too I agree - what company would say no to free money. | |
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