What Those Mysterious Cell Phone Fees Fund: $115 Million For Rural Broadband

Ever wonder what those mysterious government service fees on your cell phone bill go to fund? Part of it goes toward a newly launched $415 million plan to provide 400,000 rural netizens with some broadband goodness. The Connect America Fund, a Obama-administration supported plan for universal access to broadband, is part of a larger $4.5 billion mission to connect 19 million homes to bit-torrent streaming speeds by 2020. As with any major government rollout, the project is dogged by bureaucracy and industry backlash, but is nonetheless moving forward.

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/7TQsVJnWPHI/

kurt warner kurt warner missouri primary minnesota caucus knowshon moreno knowshon moreno sovereign citizen