Bush, but its roots go much farther back than that. Roosevelt, and that was based on a informal agreement between the telecommunications companies and the Woodrow Wilson Administration. Is it possible for them to be fixed? The unfortunate answer to your question is probably not.
The pair of cement benches in question, are unusable due to missing and rotting wooden slats. Daniel D. Plotkin, a principal at Northeast, said the benches were there long before the company took over management of the property shopping plaza at Liberty St. The origin of the benches remains a mystery. Chwalek theorizes that they may have been installed by a former property owner decades ago. Although they may have once functioned as a bus stop of sorts, PVTA officials said they have nothing to do with the stop they maintain a short distance away on Liberty Street.
Deryk Roach, assistant director of the Parks Division for the city, initially thought they may have been installed by the city in the s when what was then known as the Parks Department installed numerous concrete benches through the city. That is to say the phone service created by one company to serve one town may not have been compatible with the phone service of another company serving a different town nearby.
That common goal of universal service became a goal of universal access to service when Congress passed The Telecommunications Act of The act created the FCC and also included in its preamble a promise "to make available, so far as possible, to all the people of the United States, a rapid, efficient, Nation-wide, and world-wide wire and radio communication service with adequate facilities at reasonable charges. So the new FCC was tasked with promoting this principle of "universal service.
This informal practice was codified when the Universal Service Administrative Company USAC was created as part of the Telecommunications Act to "ensure all Americans, including low-income consumers and those who live in rural, insular, high cost areas, shall have affordable service and [to] help to connect eligible schools, libraries, and rural health care providers to the global telecommunications network.
Since , USAC has provided discounted land line service to low-income individuals. A more limited program to offer assistance to low-income individuals was created a decade earlier; the telecommunications act expanded and formalized it. According to Eric Iversen, USAC director of external relations, the Universal Service Fund more recently began funding programs that provide wireless service, such as the pre-paid cellular SafeLink program mentioned in the chain e-mail.
The president has no direct impact on the program, and one could hardly call these devices "Obama Phones," as the e-mail author does. This specific program, SafeLink, started under President George Bush, with grants from an independent company created under President Bill Clinton, which was a legacy of an act passed under President Franklin Roosevelt, which was influenced by an agreement reached between telecommunications companies and the administration of President Woodrow Wilson.
Update, Nov. Bush's administration, the FCC allowed wireless carrier Tracfone to join the program's list of approved providers. Tracfone has aggressively gone after Lifeline customers. It advertises its "free phone" on television, pays commissioned street teams to canvas low-income neighborhoods for new subscribers, and signs customers up through a splashy website that promises " Free Minutes Every Month!
Pay Nothing! Those tactics are paying off. That's twice what it took in two years ago, and far more than any other provider. Lifeline customers aren't as profitable for Tracfone as traditional ones, but the streams are reliable and help expand the company's customer base.
Advocates say the program is an essential safety net: A telephone links people to emergency services, and it's almost impossible to get a job without a phone number.
But in the days leading up the election, the booming Lifeline expansion is raising eyebrows. Congressman Tim Griffin, a Republican from Arkansas, blasted it as a "government-run, taxpayer-funded" boondoggle that's "riddled with instances of abuse.
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