The current USF audits by USAC are turning up collusion between school districts (the principle is the brother of the local ISP) and provider of goods and services of E-rate funded projects. The audits have not shown any telephone company to be misusing this money.
And I want to repeat, this is not taxpayer money. Most of this money is from a charge tacked onto the bills of the RBOC customers. It is revenue pooling and re-distribution. So, lets back off the "misuse by telephone company" tone of this discussion. If we want to point fingers, you will find the fingers are pointing at the local networking and ISP companies. That is the major source of the misuse. The second is cell phone companies claiming to be providing pots service to rural customers via tellular units. Western Wireless built a business plan around tapping the USF for all it could get. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
