Today, the FCC informed the adoption of interim measures to maintain the level of revenue flowing to the Universal Service Fund (USF). However, behind the interim measures, there is a bigger debate about the sustainability of universal service funding in the future, because of the erosion of revenues assessed from telecommunications providers. The FCC puts the problem in the following terms:
"These trends include the increased availability of bundled service packages that make it difficult to differentiate interstate revenues from intrastate revenues and to distinguish between telecommunications and non-telecommunications service products, and the increased consumer substitution of wireless and Internet-based services, which are contributing to a decline in the assessable revenue base."
Check the FCC press release here.