The Fifth and D.C. Circuit federal appellate courts are now poised to issue pivotal decisions in the ongoing litigation challenging the constitutionality of the FCC’s universal service support ...

First established as part of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, the Federal Universal Service Fund was designed to provide telephone service to underserved areas of the country. Soon after, ...

In Consumers' Research v. FCC, the Universal Service Fund (USF) is under legal and constitutional attack in the Fifth Circuit. A decision striking the USF would have wide-ranging impacts on the ...

President George W. Bush has laid out the case for why Congress should tackle the looming Social Security crisis, even though the real financial crunch is still several decades away. He’s right, of ...

The week prior, the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation held a hearing titled “The State of Universal Service.” And while the hearing ostensibly sought to examine the performance ...

The Federal Communications Commission chair decided not to impose Universal Service fees on Internet service, rejecting arguments for new assessments to shore up an FCC fund that subsidizes broadband ...

Yesterday, the FCC ruled that Internet phone companies that connect to the (PSTN) Public Switched Telephone Network to process these calls would have to pay a fee into the Universal Service Fund. The ...

WASHINGTON, June 27, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- "We applaud the Supreme Court's decision to uphold the constitutionality of the Universal Service Fund, which has long served as a cornerstone for expanding ...

The US Supreme Court will hear appeals of a 5th Circuit ruling that called Universal Service fees on phone bills an illegal tax. The US Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit ruled in July that the ...

Next year at this time members will be crisscrossing their districts in an effort to convince their constituents that they should be reelected. Likewise, challengers will be making the case as to why ...