The General Assembly has passed a bill that would lower the fee AT&T has to pay rural carriers when transfering long-distance call to their networks. AT&T Tennessee boss Gregg Morton tells WPLN that any future subsidies should go to newer technologies.

“Why are you continuing to subsidize a service that a number of people really don’t want anymore? We need to look at modernizing the regulatory framework here and look at how we can start talking about maybe subsidizing broadband.”