TracFone asked the FCC to reject a decision by the...
TracFone asked the FCC to reject a decision by the Puerto Rico Telecommunications Regulatory Board denying Lifeline support for at least a year to all its customers found to have received support from multiple eligible telecommunications carriers. Instead, the FCC…
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should order the use of the Interim Duplicate Resolution Process, which has been used in 12 states, TracFone said (http://xrl.us/bmtuxw). The board’s policy is “inconsistent with Commission-established procedures governing de-enrollment of Lifeline-eligible low-income consumers enrolled in multiple ETCs’ Lifeline programs, and therefore is preempted,” TracFone said in its petition, asking the FCC to take up the matter on an “emergency basis.” TracFone has 193,000 low-income Puerto Rico consumers in its SafeLink Wireless Lifeline program. The carrier said Puerto Rico trails most of the states in average income and is a leader based on the percentage of households living in poverty. “Similarly, Puerto Rico’s unemployment rate for December 2011 (the most recent month for which statistics are available) was 14.7 percent,” TracFone said.