Sen Snowe Supports Expanding Fee to Increase Broadband Access

Sen Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) says she favors expanding the reach of a "fee" that's been charged for years on telephone customers. Sen Snowe and other members of Congress support adding the fee to cable and wireless phone bills to raise money to assure broadband Internet access in rural areas. "I've been a big advocate of making sure that rural communities have access to broadband," she says. "Because it's similar to telephone service, and what the Telecommunications Act was all about when it was created in 1934 was to extend the basic communication service to all."