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Panel urges FCC to cap rural phone subsidies
« on: November 22, 2007, 01:38:00 PM »
Recommends allowing some of the ballooning funds to be used instead for promoting broadband service.   A government advisory panel recommended on Wednesday that the U.S. Federal Communications Commission cap the fast-growing subsidies the government allots to providers of telephone service in rural America and allow some of the...

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