Universal Service Fund

Supreme Court ruled the USF is constitutional. Now the debate refocuses on reform, and who pays in Broadband-for-all advocates and telecom providers who serve rural areas have spent the last …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

  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 …