TracFone Seeks Stay on De-Enrolling Lifeline participants
The FCC should approve a stay to prevent Universal Service Administrative Co. from de-enrolling customers from Lifeline on Wednesday if they're deemed to be receiving program benefits from multiple providers, TracFone Wireless said in a petition, posted Tuesday in docket…
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11-42. TracFone supports the FCC’s policy that only one person per household can get Lifeline services, but USAC’s production duplicate subscriber resolution process is “fraught with problems,” the company said. The process won't prevent duplicate enrollments, will reward Lifeline providers for improperly enrolling customers, make “many thousands” of households eligible for the service unable to receive it from their preferred provider, and impose “unnecessary and punitive costs” on providers like TracFone that have “complied fully with the letter and the spirit of the rules,” the company said. USAC didn't immediately comment.