Bundling Residential Telephone, Internet, and Video Services: Issues for Congress

Goldfarb, Charles B

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.

关键词: Telecommunication;    Telecommunication rates;    Telecommunication law and legislation;   

RP-ID  :  RL32232
RP-ID  :  RL32232 2004-02-17

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来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

This report discusses bundling and public policy issues for Congress. The federal Universal Service Fund - the federal subsidy program that assures affordable telephone rates for high-cost (rural) and low-income telephone customers as well as for schools, libraries, and rural health facilities - is supported by an assessment on interstate telecommunications revenues only. But it is difficult to identify the portion of revenues generated by a bundled service offering attributable to the interstate telecommunications portion of that bundle.