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Several years ago, the Texas legislature created the Telecommunications Infrastructure Fund (TIF), which
was funded through a variety of strategies, one of which was a fee charged on individual telephone bills.
(My own home phone is charged about $.16 per month, and this is one of a number of such charges itemized
on my monthly bill.) This fund was authorized up to the amount of $10 billion and was intended to ensure
that the technological infrastructure that supports education and learning in Texas would be robust enough
to support the needs of Texans at the beginning of the 21st century. 