This article offers an unsponsored examination of current disputes whether national regulatory authorities (“NRAs”) should permit broadband carriers and content providers, such as Facebook, to subsidize broadband access to a limited, “walled garden” of content. The subsidy makes it...

This paper will examine the flaws, defects and political accommodations existing in the current universal service funding process with an eye toward proposing a new workable system that can support broadband infrastructure development and operate in a digital environment where few carriers may...