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  • New tax for broadband customers?

    07/02/2005 1:25:00 AM PDT · by newzjunkey · 46 replies · 1,725+ views
    CNET News.com ^ | Fri Jul 01 2005 | Anne Broache
    Many broadband customers will pay new universal service taxes akin to those on their telephone bills if Congress bows to suggestions from rural legislators... The USF currently collects a fixed percentage of revenues from long-distance, wireless, pay phone and telephone companies so that it can pass on subsidies to low-income customers, high-cost areas, and rural health care providers, schools and libraries. Most companies come up with their share, set for this quarter at 10.2 percent, by charging their customers a fee. The USF should continue to be "industry funded," but the base of contributors should be expanded to "all providers...