ITIF：2025年如何在减少支出的同时更好地利用普遍服务基金来服务消费者报告（英文版）

 Private and federal investment have closed the broadband deployment gap. As such, the government should stop spending on obsolete, duplicative deployment programs.  Congress and the FCC should eliminate the High-Cost fund once current funding obligations are complete. The federal government should stop subsidizing companies’ operating expenses.  Instead, a narrower, Lifeline program should be the central USF program, providing a $30 per month voucher to low-income households for the broad