During questioning, Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch said his belief that the USF contribution system “is so clearly a tax.”
Describing protecting universal service as a “battle,” Bloomfield said work to save the USF would involve every branch of government.
The current system is broken,” said former FCC Commissioner Harold Furchtgott-Roth about the Universal Service Fund.
As FCC chair, Brendan Carr likely would overturn Net Neutrality and might want Big Tech to pay into the USF. What about SpaceX?
Big tech companies should pay into the Universal Service Fund, said Stankey, in a speech about AT&T BEAD recommendations.
USTelecom, the Fiber Broadband Association, and NTCA were among those filing comments to inform an FCC broadband report.