U.S. Senator Ted Stevens is a consultation on the universal service fund by contributions.
Ladies and gentlemen, I do not think Senator INOUYE come for a while, ie if we have perhaps begun. Thank you all for your presence. It is the universal service fund hearing, and we have a series of hearings in the telecommunications sector. It is the first dedicated universal service.
This approach plays a critical role to ensure that all Americans have access to our communications system at the nation, which consists of low-income seniors in Hawaiian Islands on our Eskimo people along the Arctic Ocean. Without universal service, with a tone average, would be approximately $ 200 per month, putting telephone service beyond the reach of the average family living in these areas.
Directive “universal service” that the industry has largely following the concept of the efforts that Senator INOUYE and I developed the integration of the sentence. As I have said many times, we recall the day that we are on television and I saw messages for talks at a distance, “These rates are in force in the USA, the except Alaska and Hawaii.
Well, it was one thing, while we were territories, but once we were in a state, it was not acceptable.
So Directive “universal service” began, and people live in Upper pay for the areas of the same phone that rates the cost of living in Low-Cost, and the system is now in the Universal Service Fund complex than we have today.
The changing face of communication has opened up new challenges to the fund. But I think we should keep in mind that revenue comes only from the revenue from telecommunications services, a downward trend in interest rates. The competition, packages to regroup and new services has led to an era where television revenues are decreasing, which endangers the core funding for universal service.
I will, for the remainder of my statement in the minutes, because I do not believe in lengthy explanations, but I think the Supreme Court decision in the fire X, then the decision of the FCC , As ADSL is not a De telecommunications services, Congress must consider the whole system and in response to this market, justice and regulatory developments, we must listen and learn, to determine what should be done for this important service for people in distress.
Gentlemen, our group met multiple wire, cable, cellular and perspectives of consumers, and I hope it will help us understand the impact of the problem on the system, and proposals to broaden the base for universal service and the need to continue.
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