The FCC is looking to clear out barriers to the IP Transition, and DPI has jumped on the band wagon. In a recent comment, DPI urges the FCC to scrap legacy mandates like TDM interconnection, tear up copper-retirement red tape, and moderne rules so operators can actually invest in next-gen networks. The pitch? If you want ubiquitous […]| Digital Progress Institute
Now is the time for the United States to take “decisive action” to reform the Universal Service Fund. So writes former FCC General Counsel Tom Johnson Jr. in a new white paper for the Digital Progress…| Digital Progress Institute
The Federal Communications Commission’s Universal Service Fund funding model is “unsustainable.” So argues economist Jim Prieger in a white paper for DPI examining eight different models for funding the Fund. Relying on the optimal taxation literature, he explains: The status quo is horrendously inefficient, with consumers bearing an excess burden of $2.1 billion, or about […]| Digital Progress Institute
