FCC's DSL ruling to increase phone service 10 fold!
An article in Tuesday's Rapid City Journal tells us that local phone service will increase some 10-fold if the current USF fees are not provided.
The quote has PUC member Bob Sahr saying that the Kennebec Telephone Co. has estimated that without money from the fund, the average residential phone bill of $16 would rise to $159.
FCC Commissioner Adelstein is on a tour of his native homeland of South Dakota, apparently to address the problem he is part of in the recent FCC ruling of declassifying DSL services from a telecommunications service to an information service, of which would reduce funds from DSL services currently going into the fund.
But in Adelstein's own statement of this ruling, he comments that this would not have been a ruling he would have penned. He talks of a "meaningful compromise", of which he does not explain. Though he tries to explain the reasons for this ruling, (of which the author of this blog post feels is asinine) he tries to apologize for anything he has done or may be the cause of in the future. He even goes on record as saying " It remains unclear whether the approach we have taken thus far has been a success".
