The Supreme Court is considering whether the FCC can continue collecting billions for subsidized internet and phone services. The ruling could impact connectivity for schools, libraries, and millions ...

Decisions to eliminate rules can be challenged in court. TechFreedom, a libertarian-leaning think tank, supported the goals of "Delete, Delete, Delete" but cautioned the FCC to move deliberately so ...

Pull up your phone bill and do a Ctrl+F search for "Universal Service ... An update to the Communications Act in 1996 created the USF, an independent program under the FCC's jurisdiction that expanded ...

At the Supreme Court today is another challenge to the way federal agencies operate. The issue at hand: Did Congress overstep ...

The program has to subsidize services essential to education, public health and public safety. That doesn’t mean the FCC can include ... what would happen to phone and internet service for ...

The Supreme Court hears arguments Wednesday in a major legal fight over the $8 billion a year the federal government spends to subsidize phone and internet services in schools, ...

The Supreme Court leaned toward upholding a $9 billion subsidy program that funds phone and internet services in rural areas ... that Congress handed the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) too ...

Justice Sonia Sotomayor said the FCC subsidies cover only phone and internet services ... to curtail administrative agencies in other areas, is defending the FCC program. The appeal was initially ...

The Supreme Court leaned toward upholding a $9 billion subsidy program that funds phone and internet services ... the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) too much power in administering ...

At issue is the FCC’s Universal Service Fund, a $9 billion-a-year program that helps provide broadband and phone service to low-income households, rural communities, and schools. The program is ...

The fees, which are passed on to customers, raise billions of dollars a year that are spent on providing phone and ... not tell the FCC how much money it can raise via the program, the challengers ...