Tacking a fee on my telephone bill is a form of taxation. -RickG On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Chuck McCown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >
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