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FCC Recommends Complete Overhaul of USF and ICC

Feb 7, 2011, 12:08 PM by Eric M. Zeman

Today, Federal Communications Chairman Julius Genachowski published a memorandum on its thoughts about the Universal Service Fund and the Intercarrier Compensation system. In the note, Genachowski calls both the USF and ICC flawed in their current forms, and in need of reform. He says that they are outdated and do not serve U.S. citizens in the way that they should. The FCC proposes that, in concert with the National Broadband Plan, the USF and ICC be rewritten with four main goals in mind. Those pillars include: modernizing the programs to support broadband networks; ensuring fiscal responsibility; demanding accountability; and enacting market-driven and incentive-based policies. The FCC will vote on a proposal for changing the USF and ICC on February 8, and hopes to enact a two-stage process for their reform. The goal is to do away with the iCC over time, and use the funds collected by the USF to more effectively deliver broadband to Americans who don't have access to it.

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pickles

Feb 7, 2011, 3:42 PM

where's trenen???

Isn't this unconstitutional?!?! educate us trenen, since you're the phonescoop FCC expert

cyberstoic

Constitutional? When has a little thing like that mattered to the republi-crats since FDR?

Just because the constitution doesn't grant the fed goverment to do something means nothing, I am sure there is a judge somewhere that will say it is okay.
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T Bone

Let's remember the reason the FCC was created in the first place was to shut down radio stations that were critical of the New Deal...

The purpose of the FCC is to silence and censor speech the government finds unacceptable

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SublimeDavid

Feb 7, 2011, 3:17 PM

Republicans,

Cant wait for the typical Republican responses, probably that it's bad for Americans to have Broadband... Let the bashing begin.

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