Lifeline service specialist Fones4All told the California Public ...
Lifeline service specialist Fones4All told the California Public Utilities Commission it is planning to quit the state’s telecom market because it can’t comply with a PUC judgment that it must refund to AT&T $2.7 million in Lifeline and access…
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overcharges. Fones4All said the PUC’s denial of a stay while it pursued a federal court appeal, and AT&T’s insistence that it be paid the refund, put the company in an untenable position that jeopardized its ability to continue providing service. It said it has an agreement with Telscape Communications to accept a “substantial portion” of Fones4All’s Lifeline customer base. Fones4All said it expects eventually to win on appeal, but that win would come much too late to allow it to maintain service in California.