FCC Updating Broadband Subsidy Program

The FCC will vote Tuesday on restructuring the Universal Service program funding. Initially the program was set up to provide basic telephone service to insure nationwide coverage. The FCC wants to redistribute the allocation, initiating wider broadband coverage, especially in rural areas.

"Broadband serves the same role in the 21st Century that telephone service served in the 20th Century," Genachowski said. "So we need to modernize this program."

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