Op-Ed: The Universal Service Fund Is Legal — Now Make It Legitimate

Joint Center Technology Director Danielle Davis, Esq., penned an essay for Tech Policy Press on reimagining the Universal Service Fund, urging reforms that stabilize affordability, center equity, and meaningfully include low-income Black households in the future of universal service.

From the op-ed: “The Supreme Court’s decision in Consumers’ Research v. FCC may have ended the long-running debate over whether the Universal Service Fund (USF) is constitutional, but it did not resolve the more urgent question before Congress and the Federal Communications Commission: whether the USF we have is fit for the digital economy we live in. Created for the age of dial tone, the fund now supports the basic infrastructure of modern life: school, work, health care, and civic participation. Its programs and financing no longer match how Americans—especially Black Americans—connect and stay connected.”

Click here to read the piece.