Virgin Mobile won provisional approval to receive universal service fund...
Virgin Mobile won provisional approval to receive universal service fund support under the national Lifeline program in Alabama, Connecticut, Delaware, New Hampshire and the District of Columbia, the FCC’s Wireline Bureau said Wednesday. Commission staff agreed to grant a conditional…
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forbearance from legal requirements that eligible telecommunications carriers serve customers using their own facilities. “We disagree with comments suggesting that Virgin Mobile cannot treat its parent’s facilities as its own because the two are distinct legal entities or because Virgin Mobile has a distinct brand and customer base from Sprint,” the Wireline Bureau said in an order issued Wednesday. Under the order, Virgin must require each customer to self-certify that he or she is the head of a household and receives Lifeline supported service only from Virgin; establish “safeguards to prevent its customers from receiving multiple Lifeline subsidies”; deal “directly with customers” to check Lifeline eligibility; and certify that it’s following 911 and E-911 requirements, the order said.