On June 25th, Gulonhui reported that John Stankey, CEO of AT&T, said on Monday that Congress should give the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) the power to require large technology companies to donate to a government fund to subsidize telecommunications and broadband services. According to U.S. telecommunications law, telecommunications service providers are required to inject funds into the Universal Service Fund (USF) to help low-income consumers, schools, libraries and rural health care providers obtain telephone or broadband Internet services. The fund spends about $8 billion annually, almost all of which comes from surcharges on telephone bills. Stankey said at a telecommunications industry forum in Utah that the world's largest and most profitable seven companies have established their own franchise on the Internet and the infrastructure we provide. Since the government's broadband internet subsidy ran out of funds in May and the $6 billion requested by the White House was not approved by Congress, this issue has become more urgent. The plan is available for 23 million households to use.