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The FCC Universal Fee is assessed against interstate and international long distance tolls, including calling card tolls. The fee is to reduce telephone costs for low-income persons, to subsidize the cost of connecting schools, libraries and rural hospitals to the Internet, and to lower the cost of rural telephone service.
