Marchelos Debarred - Phone Subsidy Program Back on Track!
Posted by Jim Harper
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, [...]
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Phone Subsidies in Disarray
Posted by Jim Harper
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 [...]
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