The FCC could make up to a billion dollars or more available to telecom carriers beginning next year to encourage them to expand high-speed Internet connectivity to rural areas that lack service.The money would be made available from savings achieved through the agency’s proposed extensive overhaul of the $8 billion federal universal service fund. The fund now subsidizes phone service in low-income and rural areas, but the FCC wants to redirect the money to promote broadband deployment and adoption, and cut waste and inefficiency in the process.To read this Tech Daily Dose report in full, see:
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Billion Dollar Expenditure for US Broadband Proposed for 2012
The FCC could make up to a billion dollars or more available to telecom carriers beginning next year to encourage them to expand high-speed Internet connectivity to rural areas that lack service.