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Court ruling may kill FCC fund that boosts broadband access and affordability
Court says Universal Service fee is "misbegotten tax" that violates Constitution.
If not overturned, the ruling would upend the$8 billion-a-year system that is used to expand telecom networks and make access more affordable through programs such as Lifeline discounts and deployment grants for Internet service providers. That private corporation, in turn, relied on for-profit telecommunications companies to determine how much American citizens would be forced to pay for the "universal service" tax that appears on cell phone bills across the Nation. But that would require completely reworking the program structure, and the FCC plans to instead seek Supreme Court review to save the current version of the Universal Service system.
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