Therefore, lessons learned in Camden offer insight into nationwide conditions of low telephone penetration. The universal phone service concept is a national goal to make telephone service affordable and available to all American households. Americans is the low level of telephones in their households. You need a phone to get a job and to improve your economic standing. Mueller added that among his most interesting findings was that some people chose not to have telephone service.
Credit cards have limits.
When credit cards get maxed out, they can no longer be used and some people have trouble paying. The same thing can happen with phone service. The study looks at universal service and the myths that have grown up around telephone penetration and the social condition of being without a telephone. Basic monthly service rates control how affordable telephone service is. This is three percent above the national average.