FCC Fines Verizon $5 Million for Failed Rural Calls
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Gov now telling businesses how to spend their money?
"Verizon is to pay $2 million to the U.S. Treasury and set aside $3 million more to improve call connection rates over the next three years."
Slippery slope...
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I've said it before on this site, and I'll site and I'll say it again: the FCC is becoming a rogue agency. The tales of FCC abuses of power are becoming too numerous to count.
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I disagree that they are a "rogue agency". "Rogue" implies that it is going against the status quo of the current government. Executive Fiat is the order of the day in this current government. Even the "opposition" is nothing more than an enabler that pretends to put up resistance then always turns tail and runs.
But, yes, the FCC is abusing its power...and will continue to do so.
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It's called "regulation."
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I've seen this reported in a few other media outlets and it appears the crux of the government's argument is that its related to Verizon's use of Universal Service Fund dollars for rural coverage costs in these areas. Along with this come certain obligations of the provider, which Verizon didn't live up to. Had they used another source of capital they would not be obligated (other than from a customer service stand point) to deal with this in any particular way. Because they used this source there were federal strings attached (as is usually the case with any moneys from the federal government).
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it's more accurate to say its along the lines of "The Government is now telling Massive Big Business how to INVEST their MASSIVE PROFITS along areas that are not as profitable in order to keep Federal backing and Federal licenses to keep providing service in areas that are extremly profitable."
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Even when you reword it, Karl Marx likes the idea.
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