| reply to n2jtx
Re: VoIP Industry needs to answer some questions said by n2jtx:
The real solution is to eliminate this whole concept of "Universal Service" and let the market forces come into play. If you live in a rural area, you are going to pay more for service but what you save in urban property taxes and lower home prices as well as the quality of life (ie. crime, pollution, density) is the trade-off.
I agree, we may have had a need for USF at one time but we are well past that now. |
 calvoiper
join:2003-03-31
Belvedere Tiburon, CA | ...and it doesn't much help the original concept now.
California, believe it or not, still has vast areas without any telephone service--areas where there is no local phone company. USF should be funding the provision of service to these areas--instead it's both a slush fund for the telcos and an overall cover for various "wealth redistribution" schemes--ones which hit not the rich, but instead hit everyone who has a phone, unless you fall into one of the various "identified need" groups where you get price breaks or free service. (We don't need to go further into the make up of these qualifications--let's just say that they are thought by some to have definite political goals.)
Calvoiper
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VoIP--the death knell of remaining voice monopolies! |
