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Universal Service - (Universal Service Administrative
(Universal Service Fund))
- (1)
The financial mechanism which helps compensate telephone corporations
or
other communications entities for providing access to
telecommunications services at reasonable and affordable rates
throughout the country, including rural, insular and high costs areas,
and to public institutions. Communication providers, not consumers, are
required by law to contribute to this fund. The law however doesn't
prohibit companies from passing this charge on to customers (which
often they do.) Universal Service Fund
(2) The
concept that anybody can have services such as Internet
and/or telephone.
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