CenturyLink supports the Colorado...
CenturyLink supports the Colorado Public Utilities Commission’s pending FCC request for a waiver of the Lifeline Reform Order uniform eligibility requirement (CD March 25 p15), company representatives told the Wireline Bureau, according to a Thursday ex parte filing (http://bit.ly/10kE1Ro). The…
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request concerns the complicated timing of state legislation and federal Lifeline deadlines. CenturyLink calls the extension from the existing April 1 deadline to July 1 “modest.” Colorado will need time to shift the Lifeline administration from the government to the carriers, the telco said. CenturyLink has begun preparatory steps but called the transition “unexpected,” and if there’s no waiver, it would have “no choice but to delay” processing Lifeline applications as the changes get sorted out.