Consumers will face rising phone bills unless the Federal-State J...
Consumers will face rising phone bills unless the Federal-State Joint Board imposes a cap on the Universal Service Fund (USF) high-cost support for competitive eligible telecommunication carriers (CETCs), said Sen. Robert Casey, D-Pa. In a letter sent to the…
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FCC Friday, Casey said the fund’s growth is due to subsidies for wireless carriers. Without a cap, USF funding will rise as much as $500 million this year, Casey said. Pennsylvania paid $124.9 million more into the fund than carriers received in 2006, he said. “It is a major concern that without a freeze on CETC support distributions, Pennsylvania’s net contributor role to the federal USF will greatly increase.”