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A Year of Challenges for the Universal Service Fund

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On the Ninth Day of Broadband, my true love sent to me: $90 billion in global telecom Merger & Acquisition deals value in 2024. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit declared, in a 9 to 7 en banc decision, that the USF’s funding mechanism unconstitutional in a potentially consequential case brought by Consumers’ Research.

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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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