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Changes in Universal Service Program Aid Mobile Rural Health Efforts -- 12/17/2005
On December 15, 2004, the Federal Communications Commission changed regulations to help provide additional financial support for rural telemedicine. The FCC’s press release on this is set out below. When Congress enacted the 1996 Telecommunications Act, it included a provision that created a fund to help pay for telecommunications services for rural healthcare providers. The statute gives the FCC responsibility for writing the regulations about how the money is dispersed ...
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