HEADLINES

  • SpokesmanReview: Universal Service Phone Fee Gets Overdue Scrutiny
  • ASPNews.com: FCC Moves To Fund Rural Broadband
  • InternetNews.com: Taxpayers Not Keen To Fund Broadband Subsidies
  • PC Magazine: The First Step to Better Broadband? Mapping
  • ARS Technica: Up to 20 percent of all Universal Service Fund Fees Distributed in Error
  • NEWS

    CAP THE FUND CAMPAIGN NEWS:

    05.22.08 -- THREE LEADING U.S. ANTI-TAX GROUPS URGE FCC TO MAKE USF PHONE TAX CAP PERMANENT, IMPOSE REVERSE AUCTIONS AND WASTE CRACKDOWN

    04.08.08 -- 1,500 COMMENTS GATHERED SO FAR VIA CAPTHEFUND.ORG WEB SITE IN SUPPORT OF FCC CURBS ON UNIVERSAL SERVICE FUND (USF) PHONE TAX WASTE

    03.18.08 -- AS FEDERAL PHONE TAX HEADS HIGHER, "CAP THE FUND" WEB SITE TO HELP CONSUMERS SUPPORT FCC CURBS ON UNIVERSAL SERVICE FUND (USF) WASTE

    11.14.07 -- SURVEY: 7 IN 10 AMERICANS URGE FCC TO CAP OUT-OF-CONTROL SPENDING ON "HIGH COST" PORTION OF UNIVERSAL SERVICE FUND PHONE BILL TAX -- Big Thumbs Down for USF-Funded Rural Broadband, Only About a Third of Americans Back It; Fed-Up Taxpayers Want FCC to "Hang Up" on Rampant Waste and Abuse in USF Spending

    09.27.07 - HEFTY FEDERAL PHONE TAX IS CROWNED "NEW KING OF FEDERAL TAX DOLLAR WASTE"; FCC, CONGRESS URGED TO CAP HIGH-COST USF TO REIN IN OUT-OF-CONTROL SPENDING

    09.10.07 - PHONE TAX RIP-OFF: FEDERAL GOVERNMENT PAYING FOR THOUSANDS OF "GHOST LINES" UNDER RUNAWAY "HIGH COST" PORTION OF UNIVERSAL SERVICE FUND TAX

    CAP THE FUND CAMPAIGN CONTACT:

    Ailis Aaron Wolf
    (703) 276-3265
    aaaron@hastingsgroup.com