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This Week's Issue
USF Faces New Threats Under New Administration?Recent
meetings at the FCC with representatives from the offices of at
least one Commissioner, the Wireline Competition Bureau, and the
Office of Strategic Planning have included exchanges that raise
serious questions regarding the continued availability of existing
levels of Universal Service Fund (USF) support for rural carriers.
A common outlook at the FCC is that the traditional circuit-switched voice network is rapidly evolving into a national packet-switched broadband network, and that the current USF will need to morph likewise into a broadband program.
Whereas the presentations at the FCC’s September 29, 2009, broadband meeting recognized that broadband deployment and operating costs will be high in rural areas, this does not necessarily translate into a revised broadband high-cost program that will provide rural carriers with USF support in comparable or greater amounts than they are receiving today.Continued in newsletter...
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