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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Re:Universal broadband better?

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Bear in mind that Bellevue is somewhat largely populated by Microsoft employees. I don't know if I'd like my rescue workers battling BSODs in the midst of an earthquake.