The Congressional Universal Service Working Group aims to develop USF reform legislation. Stakeholders can submit comments via a portal.

The FCC and USAC administer an approximately $9 billion fund collecting a percentage of the universal service revenues.

Reaction from the broadband industry to the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the Universal Service Fund was swift.

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.
