The FCC should make TracFone Wireless amend its plan for complyin...
The FCC should make TracFone Wireless amend its plan for complying with FCC conditions for getting Universal Service Fund support, USTelecom said. Earlier this year the FCC exempted TracFone from a ban on Lifeline program participation aimed at carriers…
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that don’t own facilities. In doing so, the FCC imposed certain E-911 conditions and required TracFone to show how it plans to implement them (CD Sept 7 p2). In its response, TracFone asked the FCC to ease the E-911 conditions, calling strict compliance “burdensome” and no guarantee of “any greater assurance of emerging service availability than would the approach” it proposed (CD Oct 12 p5). USTelecom said TracFone’s compliance plan should specify how the firm will report customers to the Universal Service Administrative Co. and distribute monthly Lifeline benefits to customers, if given ETC status. “If TracFone does obtain ETC status for any state, the Commission should give USAC clear direction on how to distribute Lifeline support for prepaid services,” said USTelecom.