ICF International will be a panelist and a sponsor at the Broadband Breakfast held in Washington, D.C., on July 19. ICF’s Michael Spead is one of the panelists and will discuss the future of broadband in the U.S.
The Universal Service Fund (USF) played an integral part in deploying and maintaining phone service to all Americans during the 20th century. As "plain old” telephone service moved from copper to fiber, however, the USF subsidized increasingly anachronistic technologies.
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Julius Genachowski has praised the USF for what it has accomplished but has called for the creation of a “Connect America Fund” through the National Broadband Plan that would support broadband and eventually displace the subsidies provided by the USF.
The question is—can we do for broadband this century what we did for telephone service in the last one? And does the political will exist to get rid of entrenched subsidies for old technology in favor of new subsidies for current technology? Find out at the July Broadband Breakfast Club.
For more information about the Broadband Breakfast Club, please visit http://broadbandbreakfast.eventbrite.com.
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