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Dear Customer, Dear Reporter, Dear Politician, Dear Business owner.
The FCC is involved in a cover-up right before your very eyes. On Election
Day, the FCC is rumored to be planning:
- Raising the FCC Line Charge – possibly to $10.00 a month (it’s
on every local bill), which is also taxed. The FCC Line Charge does
not go to fund the FCC, but is direct revenue to the phone company.
- Raising the FCC Line Charge on Business Rates – Rumor has it
could reach $13-$15 a month.
- Raising the Universal Service Fund (USF) Tax, currently at 11.4%.
- Raising or adding a new USF Tax --- have customers pay for broadband
deployment, even though the FCC has never investigated the billions
per state already collected for broadband.
All these actions are being played against a backdrop of:
- The FCC is using flawed data on local and long distance rates to
help raise rates.
- The FCC isn’t examining the current local rate increases or
phone charges throughout the US, which is happening throughout the
US.
TAKE ACTION:
1) FILE COMMENTS WITH THE FCC.
Go to: http://gullfoss2.fcc.gov/prod/ecfs/upload_v2.cgi
There are up to 3 different dockets to file under-- You can do one
or all three.
- (CC Docket No. 01-92),, (WC Docket No. 05-337 and CC Docket No.
96-45).
- Top Left under "Proceeding", put in "01-92"
or "05-337" or "96-45"
- Then fill out the form… there's a place at the bottom to
write a comment.
2) WRITE OR CALL CONGRESS:
House
Commerce Committee:
CALL THE SENATE COMMERCE COMMITTEE
Full Committee Office
Majority: 202-224-0411
Minority: 202-224-1251
WHAT TO SAY?
1) DON"T LET THE FCC RAISE THE FCC LINE CHARGE WITHOUT AUDITS.
2) NO INCREASES TO THE UNIVERSAL SERVICE FUND WITHOUT AUDITS.
3) NO NEW FEES!
4) MAKE THE UNIVERSAL SERVICE "NEEDS" BASED ON COST
5) FIX LIFELINE
6) CALL FOR AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE DATA THE FCC USES FOR PHONE
RATES
7) INVESTIGATE THE MONIES ALREADY COLLECTED FOR BROADBAND.
8) AUDIT THE ENTIRE PHONE BILL FOR ALL INCREASES AND PROFITS, BEFORE
THE FCC RAISES ANY CHARGE!
BACK TO THE SUMMARY:
http://www.teletruth.org/FCCincreasessummary.htm
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