FCC considers phone fee, network sharing to expand broadband

The FCC today will consider ways to provide incentives to get all Americans to hook up to broadband Internet, including taxing consumers' phone bills to help subsidize service and requiring ISPs to share their networks with competitors, proposals that have met with criticism from telecom and cable companies.

Wall Street Journal, The | 11/18

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