Court ruling reverses an earlier panel decision on USF constitutionality
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has ruled that the mechanism by which the Universal Service Fund is funded and administered is unconstitutional, which imperils the existence of the program that supports...
The Federal Communications Commission has begun a proceeding to figure out the future of the Universal Service Fund, which is funded through a slice of telecom carriers' revenues that is passed along to consumers through line-item bill charges.
Congress directed the agency to start...
Funds are aimed at hardening and improving U.S. territories' mobile networks
The Federal Communications Commission has authorized $237.9 million in Universal Service Fund dollars to mobile broadband networks in the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. That figure includes the agency's first USF support for...
FCC bars carriers which receive USF funding from buying ZTE, Huawei gear or services
The Federal Communications Commission has unanimously moved to block the use of Universal Service Fund monies to buy telecommunications equipment and services from companies that "pose a national security threat," and...
Communications technology has undergone a phase of rapid innovation, completely transforming the way businesses and consumers relay and consume information. Now that our once-wired world has been almost entirely replaced by a landscape of wireless technologies, the ripple effects within the telecom space are...
