[rayiner]

Whatever money AT&T receives from the USF almost certainly doesn't compensate for the revenue loss caused by putting an 18% extra tax on AT&T's products (which is how the USF is funded--an excise tax on the telecom industry).

[ubernostrum]

How about all the other subsidies we've given to telecoms companies over the past few decades in return for unfulfilled promises that the money would be used to expand and upgrade networks?

[rayiner]

Like what? The article is talking about broadband deployment to urban areas of Cleveland. What subsidies are directed at such deployment?