CFA advocate wants wireless to pay more to USF fund.(News)

RCR Wireless News, June, 2003

Byline: HEATHER FORSGREN WEAVER Wireless carriers should pay more into the universal-service fund, said a consumer advocate last week. "It is time for cellular and the internet to beartheir share of a ubiquitous network," said Mark Cooper, research director for the Consumer Federation of America.

Cooper participated in a conference call sponsored by the New Millennium Research Council to tout the release of a new report that says that low in-come consumers long-distance service could end up paying a disproportionate share of the funding if the Federal Communications Commission changes the way the USF is financed from a contribution method based on revenues to a connection-based charge. The FCC is examining the issue because there is a...

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