AT&T wants to relinquish its status as an eligible telecom...
AT&T wants to relinquish its status as an eligible telecom provider (ETC) in New York, it told the State Public Service Commission (http://xrl.us/boa4et). The telco cited “recent changes to the federal Lifeline reimbursement system” as its reasoning. It has had…
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the status since July 2003, according to its petition this week. “As of January 1, 2013, all of AT&T’s current Lifeline customers reside in Verizon’s service territory, so another ETC already serves the areas in which AT&T is seeking to relinquish its ETC designation,” AT&T said. It already has a draft message, included in the petition, notifying customers that AT&T will be dropping Lifeline discounts after March 31.