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Re: No wonder
said by FreeMarketsNow:
The 1996 telco act states that all providers of telecommunications services should contribute to Federal universal service in some equitable and nondiscriminatory manner - this has nothing to do with the excise tax. this is over and above it. One thing a lot of people miss is that VoIP providers are *already* contributing to the USF -- although quite indirectly and not necessarily fairly, via what they pay to ILECs, CLECs, and IXCs (entities that clearly must contribute to the USF) for PSTN interconnection services (PRIs, DIDs, wholesale LD, etc.) and last-mile and intercity facilities (T1's and so on.) It does seem that VoIP is eroding USF revenues, though, mostly because of lower contributions from those sort of services vs. traditional phone service.
-SC
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