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FCC unveils plans to overhaul rural phone service fund to provide high-speed Internet access
LA Times ^ | January 6, 2011

Posted on 02/08/2011 1:41:03 PM PST by LonelyCon

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To: LonelyCon

NOBODY pays for my internet, why should me and you have to pay for someone else’s?


21 posted on 02/08/2011 1:58:39 PM PST by diverteach (If I find liberals in heaven after my death.....I WILL BE PISSED!!!)
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To: LonelyCon

The $8-billion Universal Service Fund is paid for by telecommunications companies’———

Really? Because every month on my bill I have to pay the Universal Service fee fund...


22 posted on 02/08/2011 2:00:20 PM PST by Freddd
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To: LonelyCon

Hmmm, why not just wait a few years for commercial enterprise to have High speed 3G and 4G network proliferated the landscape, NAH, the gubermint can do it better...


23 posted on 02/08/2011 2:01:17 PM PST by GraceG
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>>They can’t regulate your thermostat . . without it.<<

Many of the NG armories in Texas are controlled by computers in Austin. That little idea played heck with their heat last week, when the main Austin building lost power last week. Almost everyone got half a day off.


24 posted on 02/08/2011 2:03:06 PM PST by Arrowhead1952 (America has two cancers - democrats and RINOS.)
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To: Freddd

It was mandated by goobermint and then the phone companies get to field the angry calls about “what’s this USF charge”...

Not to worry, you can apply for Telephone Assistance (TAP) and get all ,but your USF paid for by the same goobermint!!


25 posted on 02/08/2011 2:04:10 PM PST by WOBBLY BOB ( "I don't want the majority if we don't stand for something"- Jim Demint)
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To: LonelyCon

So the FCC will raise my phone bill so the 16 people living in West Water Pump, SD can have broadband Internet for the 2 people in town with computers. It might be cheaper if we subsidized the building of a Starbucks in these rural communities so the residents can get free wi-fi with their coffee... after all these folks in rural areas don’t have access to lattees either. It is bad enough that we maintain full post offices in towns of 75 people.


26 posted on 02/08/2011 2:05:01 PM PST by The Great RJ (The Bill of Rights: Another bill members of Congress haven't read.)
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To: LonelyCon

When is da gubmint gonna start paying for free World of Warcraft??


27 posted on 02/08/2011 2:05:13 PM PST by Bryanw92 (We don't need to win elections. We need to win a revolution.)
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To: GraceG

They are chompin to collect sewage fees(even though you have a septic field), water consumption fees(farms use a lot, and I mean a really lot of well water), and there are programs being introduced where the utility rations your electric useage, limiting what you can have running at any given time. ie, if you are heating hot water, your furnace shuts off. If you are running the electric stove, the hot water heater will not switch on. If it is daytime, your lights will not work. Each family will be given an operating kilowatt budget controlled by smart meters and smart switches. This way everyone wins and you have “choices”(sound familiar?)


28 posted on 02/08/2011 2:08:54 PM PST by blackdog
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In some cases, it pays more than $20,000 a year to provide a single home with phone service.

My God how insane! They could give them a satellite phone hookup for less.

29 posted on 02/08/2011 2:57:29 PM PST by MrDem (Founder: Democrats for Cheney/Palin 2012)
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To: LonelyCon
Read your cell phone bill. See how much of it is taxes already?

NO MORE TAXES!!!!!!

30 posted on 02/08/2011 3:17:58 PM PST by IronJack (=)
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