The Hill News

With the president’s speech this week highlighting the ongoing desperation among American families looking for job creation and economic recovery, Congress should start with the low-hanging fruit: policies and reforms that can get us on the path to recovery immediately and without partisan gridlock.
 
One widely supported reform that President Obama failed to mention is the proposed transition of the little-known Universal Service Fund (USF), a federal fund that was designed to support the expansion of old-fashioned, wire-line telephone service across America.  Today, we have now achieved virtually universal access to traditional phone service and USF is long overdue for change.
 
Fortunately, many people with the technology community have offered a very practical solution: transitioning the fund into supporting the expansion of broadband Internet services to millions of Americans in underserved communities.

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