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 koitsuPremium,MVM
join:2002-07-16
Mountain View, CA
kudos:14 | reply to pnh102
Re: Figures said by pnh102:I heard this saying long ago... but it always seems true: Bad law is more likely to be supplemented than repealed. That's a beautiful quote, and highly applicable to this situation.
The saddest part of the USF, for me, is that I fully support what it's *supposed* to be used for -- but it's being abused (money not going where it should), being applied illegally by some ISPs or telcos (confirmed by the FCC), and doesn't appear to be actually tracked (I want to see the results of the cash I pay into this -- I don't mean me personally, since I live in an urbanised area, but I mean a map of the results or something! Actually, with regards to schools, I can get a list...)
When I think of the USF, I want to smile and know that new opportunities of technology are being offered to rural areas which previously couldn't get either broadband or telephone, or people who can't afford such necessities (referring to phone) -- which is what the High-Cost and Low-Income programmes are supposed to provide. I want to smile knowing more schools will have high speed Internet access for useful resources (when I was a kid, I'd have killed for Wikipedia while doing US History reports), or hospitals becoming better networked (not to the Internet, but quite possibly to themselves or one another). I want to know that what I'm paying goes where it should -- so that the next time I see the tax on my voice landline bill, I'll feel like I'm helping improve things for others... not fill someone's pockets.
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | said by koitsu:The saddest part of the USF, for me, is that I fully support what it's *supposed* to be used for -- but it's being abused (money not going where it should), being applied illegally by some ISPs or telcos (confirmed by the FCC), and doesn't appear to be actually tracked (I want to see the results of the cash I pay into this -- I don't mean me personally, since I live in an urbanised area, but I mean a map of the results or something! Actually, with regards to schools, I can get a list...) And if your a rural customer of a Baby Bell, God help you. The Baby Bell doesn't qualify for most forms of USF subsidy (billing corporate and administrative costs to the feds), and doesn't take the money anyways. So even if the USF paid for broadband, only the rural independent ILECs will use the "bailout", the mega Baby Bells that are flush with $ won't touch USF and its terms and conditions with a 10 foot pole. | |
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