Alternate Title: FCC to create $4.5 billion slush fund to let the indigent watch porn in their spare time…
Via The Westside Story:
This program is known as Connect America and is a part of a bigger $8 billion universal service fund which pays for a number of initiatives like providing communication links for schools, low income families and others.
The overhaul of the fund was approved by the FCC in October 2011. However the move was soon challenged in dozens of writs filed by phone companies. The most vociferous opponents of the move were small carriers who stood to lose money in the form of subsidies because of the changes.