Telephone customers throughout the United States now provide an annual subsidy of more than $25.5 million to Jeffrey Prosser's Innovative Telephone, the Virgin Islands' telephone company. Each month, millions of telephone customers across the nation pay surcharges of varying amounts -- 34 cents in the Virgin Islands -- that wend their way into an obscure federally sponsored fund designed to make telephone service affordable to low-income users in hard-to-reach rural areas such as Alaska and the mountains of the American West. Research by the Source discloses that Innovative Telephone, formerly known as Vitelco, has been remarkably successful at tapping into...