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06/27/2025
USF Prevails: Supreme Court Upholds FCC Subsidy Program
The FCC’s Universal Service Fund survived a legal challenge that claimed the $8 billion subsidy program is unconstitutional as currently constructed.
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06/12/2025
On the Hill
The House voted largely along party lines Thursday to rescind $1.1 billion in federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which doles that money out to public radio and TV stations across the country.
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04/09/2025
Trusty Vows Not to Weaponize FCC, Seeks Spectrum Unity
As Sen. Amy Klobuchar quipped, Olivia Trusty wins the best name prize for a nominee as senators quizzed her to try and determine if she could in fact be trusted to serve as an FCC commissioner.
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03/26/2025
High Court Hesitant to Roll Back Longstanding USF Program
The FCC’s Universal Service Fund had another day in court as the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the most recent challenge to the program.
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03/06/2025
Effros: What If
What’s $8 billion among friends? That’s (sort of) just one of the questions floating around Washington these days as the Courts get involved in the massive realignment going on about how the federal government works, or doesn’t.
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12/11/2024
FCC Changes Rules to Support Broadband Buildout
The FCC unanimously voted during its Wednesday open meeting to change the rules around letters of credit to lessen administrative and financial burdens on ISPs receiving certain kinds of high-cost support from the Universal Service Fund.