{"id":276494,"date":"2026-05-19T12:15:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T12:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/276494\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T12:15:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T12:15:40","slug":"ex-fcc-official-urges-agency-to-bring-usf-billing-in-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/276494\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-FCC Official Urges Agency To Bring USF Billing In-House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Christopher Cole ( May 18, 2026,  4:59 PM EDT) &#8212; A former top Federal Communications Commission official says it&#8217;s time for an overhaul of how the agency runs the Universal Service Fund with reforms that should include bringing the program&#8217;s billions of dollars in yearly revenue collections in-house&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>              Law360 is on it, so you are, too.<\/p>\n<p>A Law360 subscription puts you at the center of fast-moving legal issues, trends and developments so you can act with speed and confidence. Over 200 articles are published daily across more than 60 topics, industries, practice areas and jurisdictions.<\/p>\n<p>A Law360 subscription includes features such as<\/p>\n<p>                Daily newsletters<br \/>\n                Expert analysis<br \/>\n                Mobile app<br \/>\n                Advanced search<br \/>\n                Judge information<br \/>\n                Real-time alerts<br \/>\n                450K+ searchable archived articles<\/p>\n<p>And more!<\/p>\n<p class=\"try-free\">Experience Law360 today with a free 7-day trial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Christopher Cole ( May 18, 2026, 4:59 PM EDT) &#8212; A former top Federal Communications Commission official&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-276494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}