A Universal Service Fund overhaul “would best be grounded on...
A Universal Service Fund overhaul “would best be grounded on classification of broadband Internet connectivity as a telecommunications service” by the FCC, said the Media Access Project in a meeting last week with the Wireline Bureau. “Such a decision would…
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minimize the chance of an anomalous and undesirable outcome in which the Commission plausibly might require contributions from broadband providers but have no authority to provide explicit support for broadband deployment and adoption.” MAP can’t yet endorse either revenue-based or numbers-based contribution to USF, because of the current legal uncertainty about the commission’s broadband authority, it said. Whatever method is chosen, the group said it shouldn’t “increase the relative contribution burden passed through to providers’ residential subscribers, nor promote more regressive assessments."