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Dominokat
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Re: I know what ails the rural broadband market.

Universal Service Fund!!!! We all pay into it. What is it for? Help tel cos cut cost to deploy into the rural areas. (Oh, I forgot. It is a fund used to lobby against deployment to rural areas. AKA: Slush Fund)
to forum · permalink · · 2007-08-29 21:18:55 · Reply to this


batterup
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said by Dominokat See Profile :

Universal Service Fund!!!! We all pay into it. What is it for? Help tel cos cut cost to deploy into the rural areas. (Oh, I forgot. It is a fund used to lobby against deployment to rural areas. AKA: Slush Fund)
It is for POTS the last regulate vestige of Ma Bell days. The great unwashed can get POTS.

I know USF, Verizon New Jersey pays millions upon millions and gets back ZERO.
to forum · permalink · · 2007-08-29 22:49:36 · Reply to this
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