The Supreme Court on Wednesday seemed poised to uphold the federal program that provides schools, libraries, and underserved ...

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Wednesday in a major challenge to the federal “E-rate program,” which subsidizes telephone and high-speed internet services in schools, libraries, rural ...

The Universal Service Fund spent $8.4 billion in 2024 on phone and broadband subsidies for rural and low-income households.

The Supreme Court leaned toward upholding a $9 billion subsidy program that funds phone and internet services in ... ordering every American be provided access to billionaire Elon Musk’s Starlink.

The Trump administration is making changes to a $42 billion broadband subsidy program that will ... s vision for the Broadband Equity and Access Deployment Program (BEAD), designed to deliver fast, ...

But last year, Congress let funding lapse for an internet subsidy program, the Affordable Connectivity Program, and the FCC moved to fill the gap by providing money from the E-rate program ...

Rival telecoms groups lobby regulator to prevent Musk-owned company from receiving financial support for Far North region ...

Justice Sonia Sotomayor said the FCC subsidies cover only phone and internet services. “It a very real constraint. They are the only two services that have been identified,” Sotomayor said.