Rural Broadband to Replace POTS As Beneficiary of US Gov't Subsidies

Posted by timothy on Thursday October 27, 2011 @08:12AM from the hello-sir-wondering-which-bribe-you'd-prefer dept.

IDG reports that "The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has voted to overhaul a decades-old system of telephone subsidies in rural areas, with the funding refocused on broadband deployment. The FCC's vote Thursday would transition the Universal Service Fund's (USF's) high-cost program, now subsidizing voice service, to a new Connect America Fund focused on broadband deployment to areas that don't yet have service. The FCC will cap the broadband fund at $4.5 billion a year, the current budget of the USF high-cost program, funded by a tax on telephone bills." That cap, says Reuters, is "the first budget constraint ever imposed on the program."

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Bury him already by networkzombie · 2011-10-27 09:53 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Steve Jobs is dead. Please bury him. He is starting to stink. FTFA: "the era of Steve Jobs and the Internet future he imagined." That is not the future I want. No Usenet, 99 cents for each morsel of low quality iCrap, all my posts getting deleted, all my devices resembling a iDildo, and buying my groceries on iTunes. Why not just have Bono run for president?