The Universal Service Fund fee will hit a record-high 15.3% for the second quarter of 2010, according to an FCC public notice released March 12.
The USF was implemented as a result of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 and was originally conceived to be assessed on carrier revenue only.
Today, carriers simply pass the expense onto consumers.  [...]

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In the late 1990’s, Yahoo paid little attention to a new search company called Google. Fast forward 12 years and…well, you know the story.
Looks like Google is at it again, but this time in the world of broadband. Google unveiled plans to connect U.S. homes to the internet with lightning-fast service.
How fast you [...]

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In the wireless world, competing for customers is seemingly a full contact sport these days. With millions of “smart” phones now rolling of the assembly lines every year, many wireless business users are beginning to use their wireless phones and wi-fi enabled laptops as virtual offices - blasting through bandwidth like its going [...]

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NTT DoCoMo has achieved a download speed of 250M bps (bits per second) in trials of a future 3G cellular technology.
The speed was attained in outdoor tests near the carrier’s [...]

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