 morboComplete Your Transaction
join:2002-01-22
00000 | time to clean up USF what would solve the shedding of these rural areas by big telco is taking away their USF funding and tighting auditing the minor funds they do receive.
everyone agrees that USF is a huge slush fund joke. telco thinks that they will have this pot o' money to do what they want with, but if we decide that they no longer serve rural areas then they only get a tiny percentage of the funds that are closely watched then suddenly, i think things will change. using the funds for rural wiring should be mandated. the fund should also be phased out after a set period of time. |
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| and if you take this money away from carriers that only focus on the rural areas what is going to happen? They'll go under and we'll be bailing them out or ATT will be moving in and they'll end up with dial-up due to ATT wouldn't want to support anything else.
The USF should ONLY be for Rural Carriers that service rural areas. And the telco's shouldnt decide what is rural and what is not. |
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iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
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Agreed. Verizon should be forced to drop the USF now that they've divested the vast majority of their rural markets. Do the same thing with AT&T if they decide to divest anyone. Qwest actually covers urban and rural areas so nothing could be done to them. |
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | reply to hottboiinnc
said by hottboiinnc:and if you take this money away from carriers that only focus on the rural areas what is going to happen? They'll go under and we'll be bailing them out or ATT will be moving in and they'll end up with dial-up due to ATT wouldn't want to support anything else. The USF should ONLY be for Rural Carriers that service rural areas. And the telco's shouldnt decide what is rural and what is not. Simple, turn all the carriers into non-profits/co-ops, and stop USF payments to anything without a 501(c) designation, no dividends, no stock, limit "director" compensation to 200K a year, and mandate a per nonprofit carrier trust fund for capital improvement/expansion. Another idea force carriers to issue stock/shares to subscribers and only subscribers, prevent stock issue/bonuses/options to any employees of the carrier, there is no incentive for profit now, just breaking even, all profit would either lower rates, or go towards capital improvements.
Telecom companies are just a business, telecom is a means to an end, they have no incentive to do anything pro-network or pro-consumer unless motive for profit. |
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