Use magic jack, ham radio, smoke signals, skype or the post office. Your telephone bill comes from a commercial enterprise. You do not have to participate. Therefore you are not forced to pay into our charity program. That is not a tax.
----- Original Message ----- From: "RickG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 9:52 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] gotta love USF!!!! > 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: [email protected] >> >> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >> >> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >> > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
