The California Public Utility Commission can opt out of the...
The California Public Utility Commission can opt out of the national Lifeline database, the FCC Wireline Bureau said in an order Monday (http://bit.ly/YLDlTH). The bureau conditioned the grant on the state’s deployment of a third-party identity verification service. The state’s…
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system for detecting and eliminating duplicative support is “comprehensive and at least as robust as the processes adopted by the [federal] Commission,” the bureau said. The bureau said it was still “concerned” about prospective subscribers’ ability to “intentionally or inadvertently” provide incorrect information in their Lifeline applications, thereby getting double support. The risk is heightened in California because “unlike the other state administrators seeking opt out approval,” CPUC “does not utilize an eligibility database,” the bureau said. Nevertheless, that limitation does not keep the state’s system from being as “robust” as the national system, the bureau said.