The FCC should reject the 12.9 percent contribution factor propos...
The FCC should reject the 12.9 percent contribution factor proposed by the Universal Service Administrative Co. for the universal service in the third quarter, said the National Association of State Utility Consumer Advocates. The new factor takes effect July…
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1 unless the FCC acts to modify it. In a request filed at the FCC late Tuesday, NASUCA said the FCC could reduce the factor by directing USAC to dip into $1 billion in unused USF E-rate funds, or nearly $6 billion in assets held for the federal fund. “With high unemployment levels, foreclosures across the nation and everyone’s household budgets being stretched thin, we call on the FCC to reduce the proposed hike in the Universal Service Fund’s contribution level,” said NASUCA President David Springe. “The goals of the universal service fund are extremely important, but to demand that consumers pay the highest contribution level in history is to hurt the very customers we are trying to help.”