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Wireless Providers to Pay Universal Service Fees?

andyo writes "Mailing lists are abuzz with the news that wireless Internet providers may have to pay fees to support plain old telephone service. My own perspective is at the O'Reilly Network." The Universal Service Fees are taxes set up long ago to assure that telephone service was provided to everyone, even people who it would normally be uneconomical to serve. The theory is a good one, the execution maybe not. (Maybe if the fees went towards Universal Broadband?)

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  1. If everyone has a cell phone. by BiggestPOS · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The world will be a better place.... Yea Right. If this piece of technology has finally moved from a privlege, to a right, well. Maybe this says something about how badly we need to be connected.

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