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The FCC's $200 Billion Disaster
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Corbin Barthold
Dec 20, 2024
The Universal Service Fund’s budget has ballooned from $1.37 billion in 1995 to more than $9 billion in 2021
The FCC — not Congress — decides the program’s budget, meaning the Commission, not publicly elected representatives, is in charge of how much consumers are billed for the program
In practice, the fund has been virtually ineffective for the amount of money spent
In the mid-1990s, Congress codified a funding scheme designed to pay for phone service on behalf of people who couldn’t afford it. The FCC promptly handed much of its authority over this Universal Service Fund (USF) to a private entity called Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC), which is littered with industry insiders and subject to little government oversight. The program’s remit was later expanded to cover broadband.
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