management of technology: Hillicon Valley: FCC eyes broadband tax - SpursTalk.com

Yesterday, 06:04 AM

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The Federal Communications Commission is eyeing a proposal to tax broadband Internet service.

The move would funnel money to the Connect America Fund, a subsidy the agency created last year to expand Internet access.
The FCC issued a request for comments on the proposal in April. Dozens of companies and trade associations have weighed in, but the issue has largely flown under the public's radar.

"If members of Congress understood that the FCC is contemplating a broadband tax, they'd sit up and take notice," said Derek Turner, research director for Free Press, a consumer advocacy group that opposes the tax.

Numerous companies, including AT&T, Sprint and even Google have expressed support for the idea.

Consumers already pay a fee on their landline and cellular phone bills to support the FCC's Universal Service Fund. The fund was created to ensure that everyone in the country has access to telephone service, even if they live in remote areas.

Last year, the FCC overhauled a $4.5 billion portion of the Universal Service Fund and converted it into a broadband Internet subsidy, called the Connect America Fund. The new fund aims to subsidize the construction of high-speed Internet networks to the estimated 19 million Americans who currently lack access.

http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-va...ternet-service

Yesterday, 06:32 AM

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Believe.

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If mega-corps are FOR a tax, it's ONLY because they will be profiting, in the many $Bs, from the tax.

They'll pocket the tax to Connect America but they won't Connect America seriously, and the govt won't penalize them for not connecting. iow, no accountability.

btw, DSL is NOT broadband, it's baseband.

Yesterday, 09:50 AM

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leemajors earned this Spur by being an original member of SpursTalk.com.

leemajors donated to The Carver Academy in 2008

lol, as if the general shitty service isn't expensive enough already?

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Yesterday, 09:56 AM

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It's the smell...

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DSL is broadband delivered over a phone line. :facepalm

"Federal Communications Commission has the following definition for Broadband Internet:

??broadband service [is the] data transmission speeds exceeding 200 kilobits per second (Kbps), or 200,000 bits per second, in at least one direction: downstream (from the Internet to the user?s computer) or upstream (from the user?s computer to the Internet)?
http://www.brighthub.com/computing/h...id=parsely_rec

Also, why is there another tax needed for this? The USF fund is sufficient.

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