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Universal Service, Affordability, and Customer Protection for all Telecom Consumers |
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TopicsLifeline Information Lifeline Information (Top)PSC Orders Enhancement of Lifeline Programs for Customers of Certain Frontier Telephone Companies 5-16-01 Telephone Lifeline Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Universal Service Programs for Lifeline, Linkup, Schools and Libraries, Rural Health Care, and High Cost Areas FCC's Universal Service Programs for Low-Income Consumers - 3/07/01 PULP Comments to FCC on Universal Service and Lifeline Policies Inmate Telecom Issues (Top)eTc Campaign Update (Equitable Telephone Charge) - 7-02 When is a Collect Call Cruel and Unusual Punishment - 6-17-02 Bullard v. State of New York (NY Ct of Claims) challenge to inmate phone rates dismissed - 05-01-02 PULP Comments to the FCC on Billed Party Preference and Inmate Telephone Services - 7-15--94 PULP Comments on Operator Service Rate Cap Proposal - 10-7-94 Articles On Inmate Telecom Issues Senators Urge End to Fees on Prison Calls / Critics Say Phone Policy Gouges Inmate Families San Francisco Chronicle; 8/17/99 Heavy Toll on Calls From Prison / Inmates' Families Accuse State, Phone Companies Of Price-Gouging San Francisco Chronicle; 6/14/99 Crime Pays. . . the phone company and the state. how inmate calls raise millions for Gray Davis' budget - LA Weekly Phone Firm Wrestle for Prisoners' Business in Hot Growth Market - Wall St. Journal - 2-15-95 Inmates Dropping Dimes in a Brave New World of Lasers - 9-29-93 Public Payphone Issues (Top)NY Spared Pay Phone Rate Hike ... For Now - 9/8/01Background on Public Interest Payphones Big `Change' At Pay Phone Could Mean 35-Cent Call - NY Post - 7-9-01 Public pay phone use down as wireless use grows - The Journal News - 5/15/01
Reports and Articles of Interest (Top)Response to When Bears Attack - Column Ignores Market Realities - 8-30-01 When Bears Attack - The Cornell Daily Sun - 8-28-01 Telephone Service In Crisis: A Report on Verizon's Falsification of Service Quality Data to the PSC - CWA - 4/2001 Can a telephone company insist on a photo ID as a condition of residential service? Verizon Foundation now offers eGrants to nonprofit organizations. - 5/03/01 Telephone Billing and Collection Regulations - Part 606 What Are Your Rights If You Have Been Slammed? Information from the FCC 4/19/01 Link to FCC Brouchure on Slamming - 4/19/01 The Benton Foundation and AOL Time Warner Foundation - Bridging the Digital Divide - New Internet Directory of More Than 20,000 Technology Centers and Libraries with Free Internet Access Provides Powerful Tool to Close the digital divide (http//www.ConnectNet.org). 3/27/01 Connecting the Globe - A Regulator's Navigating the Digital Divide Conference - Feb. 9, 2001 NYS Diffusion Fund Final Report - 12/00 New York Second In Nation in Providing Telephone Lifeline Assistance for Low Income Customers (FCC Monitoring Report - Sept. 2000 Table 2-5) Smaller New York Telephone Companies Show Wide Variation in Number and Percentages of Customers Receiving Reduced Lifeline Rates New York Low Income Telephone Consumer Receive Over $50 Million in Telephone Lifeline Assistance Household Telephone Penetration Rises in New York State Percentage of Low Income Households With Telephone Service Grows from 1989 - 1998 (FCC Monitoring Report, Sept., 2000 Table 6-9) PSC Denies Request for Broadband Assistance to Organizations Serving Low Income Communities 8/31/00 New York State Lags Other States in Houseshold Internet Access PULP Proposes Broadband Rate Reductions for Organizations Serving Low Income Communities. 7/21/00. Proposed Sprint / MCI Merger Faulted Frontier Settlement Connecting All Americans (Top)About CAM
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