The FCC granted a petition by the California...
The FCC granted a petition by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to extend the deadline to incorporate a third-party identification verification system into its process to detect and eliminate duplicative support as a condition of its Lifeline duplicates database…
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opt-out relief, in a FCC order adopted Thursday (http://bit.ly/13Buh7q). On March 4, the FCC Wireline Bureau granted CPUC’s request to opt out of the National Lifeline Accountability Database (NLAD), established by the Universal Service Administrative Co., because California already had a mechanism in place to detect and prevent duplicate subscribers, but it “conditioned the relief on the CPUC successfully incorporating an identification verification system into its duplicates detection and elimination process” by Thursday, the order said. The CPUC must comply with this condition by Dec. 31.