FCC Should More Closely Examine Trade-Offs in USF Programs, Jamison Blogs for AEI
Despite recent pushback from advocacy groups against Friday's FCC NPRM to place an overall budget cap on USF programs (see 1906030059), arguments can be made in its defense, blogged American Enterprise Institute visiting scholar Mark Jamison Wednesday. Though caps exist…
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on individual USF programs, "having an overall cap would force the agency to explicitly examine the tradeoffs." For example, if benefits to low-income students from having broadband access at school are unequal to those of having broadband at home, he suggested "there are good arguments for reallocating monies towards programs that give more bang for the buck."