I wrote here six weeks ago about how the telecommunications subsidy programs run by the Federal Communications Commission were poorly run and subject to waste, fraud, and abuse.
Well, evidently, the FCC got the message and has cleaned up its act! Or started to . . . . Or at least they did something.
Today, [...]
This time it’s not a politician to blame for making exaggerated claims. It’s one of these coalitions that spring up when a certain set of people want a certain set of goodies from the government.
The Coalition for Free Broadband Now wants the Federal Communications Commission to auction of some of the electromagnetic spectrum [...]
Via Ars Technica, the Government Accountability Office recently issued a report entitled “Telecommunications: FCC Needs to Improve Performance Management and Strengthen Oversight of the High-Cost Program.” That’s a nice way of saying, “Things are going to hell in a handbasket!”
The FCC administers a small collection of subsidy programs for telecommunications that support rural telephone service, for [...]