Colorado Public Utilities Commission staff worry about how federal Lifeline...
Colorado Public Utilities Commission staff worry about how federal Lifeline eligibility requirements might conflict with state rules, they told the FCC Wireline Bureau in an ex parte filing (http://bit.ly/WJWgls). The Colorado Legislature has its own requirements for the state’s Low…
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Income Telephone Assistance Program, it said. The PUC filed a waiver extension of federal Lifeline rules this month. “The public interest is not best served by requiring Colorado and Colorado providers to establish and administer two separate eligibility programs for some interim period,” PUC staff told the Wireline Bureau. “If the current waiver is not extended and expires on April 1, 2013, then indeed, Colorado providers will have to establish and administer this separate federal eligibility program beginning April 1, 2013 and continuing until the state law repeal takes effect.” The effects would hurt Colorado telcos like CenturyLink, PUC staff added -- “to establish this duel [sic] regime is significant and in some ways impractical.” It encouraged the FCC to extend the waiver to July 1.