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A Year of Challenges for the Universal Service Fund

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On the Third Day of Broadband, my true love sent to me: 3rd year without the Federal Communications Commission having spectrum auction authority. On the Ninth Day of Broadband, my true love sent to me: $90 billion in global telecom Merger & Acquisition deals value in 2024. billion dollars in annual Universal Service Funds.

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High Court Watcher: SCOTUS Might Not Want to Upend Universal Service

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The high court agreed Friday to review a Fifth Circuit decision that found the $8 billion-per-year broadband subsidy, funded by fees on telecom providers, illegally took taxing power away from the legislature.  That’s the percentage of interstate voice revenue telecoms pay into the fund. WASHINGTON, Nov.

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