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Broadband Tax Plan Revived in U.S. Senate

Anne Broache writes on C|Net News:

Scarcely a half day into the 110th Congress's inaugural session, a proposal has resurfaced to collect fees from all communications service providers--including broadband and voice over Internet protocol--in order to subsidize telephone and Internet services in rural and other "high cost" areas, schools and libraries.

Sen. Ted Stevens on Thursday introduced the Universal Service for Americans Act. The name comes from the multibillion-dollar Universal Service Fund, which supporters say has dwindled over the past few years because it depends on contributions from long-distance revenues, which no longer compose as significant a portion of Americans' telephone bills.

posted by Fergie @ 1/04/2007 04:56:00 PM