Program enriches cell phone companies operating in rural areas

Monday, July 23, 2007

WASHINGTON -- A decade-old telephone tax intended to help bring affordable service to rural areas has instead turned into something quite different: a bottomless and politically protected well of cash for cell phone companies that do big business in rural America.

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