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RCR Wireless News, April, 2006
Byline: HEATHER FORSGREN WEAVER A telematics provider warned the Federal Communications Commission that a numbers-based approach to finance the universal-service fund will not survive a court challenge. Using language from a previous appeals court decision on USF to bolster its claims, ATX Group Inc.
said the proposed $1 per month fee on every assigned telephone number would have a devastating effect on the rollout of low-end telematics services. "The fee would violate the law's requirement that universal-service contributions be `equitable and nondiscriminatory' and halt the broader rollout of telematics-based safety and security to mass-market vehicles,'' said Gary Wallace, vice president for corporate relations at ATX. Wallace told the...
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