We request that careful thought go into making any changes in the levels of support coming from the fund. FMTI does support the principle that contributions to the Universal Service Fund shall be made in an equitable and nondiscriminatory manner. The availability of advanced services to everyone in the nation must be an overriding goal of the Act. The definition of advanced services should be tempered with the knowledge that advanced services of yesterday are now common place and that advanced services of today will become common place in the future.
Community centers close enough to consumers to make it readily accessible.
The rates for providing these services should not have a large disparity with those of Urban areas and thereby creating rate discrimination between those in the Urban areas and the Rural areas.