T-Mobile and Budget PrePay in their reply comments...
T-Mobile and Budget PrePay in their reply comments Wednesday opposed Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley’s comments on the state’s proposed Lifeline requirements. T-Mobile said it supports the Massachusetts Department of Telecommunications and Cable’s decision to not adopt state-specific requirements related…
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to consumer protection because it’s duplicative as applied to wireless carriers. The DTC should not require eligible telecommunications carriers to include Lifeline information on their websites unless the FCC requires it, said T-Mobile. The company should not have to do outage reporting more than once a year because it’s “inconsistent with federal law, unnecessary, and premature in the context of ongoing efforts by the FCC,” said T-Mobile. Budget PrePay opposed Coakley’s recommendation that eligible telecommunications carriers should sell refurbished phones with a 90-day warranty or return policy because the length of a carrier’s warranty should be a commercial decision, said the company in its comments (http://1.usa.gov/18Tu6de). Budget PrePay said it agreed with T-Mobile that a five-day advance notification on changes to Lifeline terms and conditions prior to implementation would be difficult to meet and result in competitive harm.