Saturday, October 19, 2013

Free for thee, yet not for me....Universal Service Fund

Jerry Ellig on the Universal Service Fund:

Low-income phone subsidies have more than doubled since 2008, rising from $819 million in 2008 to $2.19 billion in 2012. 
What happens when these subsidies are offered to lower income consumers without reliable safeguards against waste, fraud and abuse? 
Jerry Ellig examines more closely in a recent podcast and paper:

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