U.S. Cellular met with members of the Federal-State Joint Board o...
U.S. Cellular met with members of the Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service to argue against a cap on the fund, which is now before FCC commissioners, it said. The carrier said in an FCC filing that it stated…
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at the meeting that “there is no crisis in USF funding,” with the fund down 16 percent last year. It called the cap “the wrong move at the wrong time,” institutionalizing discrimination that exists in the fund. U.S. Cellular pointed out that Mississippi now gets $140 million from the high-cost fund, compared to $2 million in Missouri and $100,000 in Illinois. “Since 1999, Wireless has drawn $3 billion and wireline has drawn $25 billion,” the carrier said.