Lifeline Program Was Active Before Participation by Wireless Carriers, TracFone Says
Representatives of TracFone met with Nick Degani, an aide to FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai, to discuss testimony the commissioner gave last month before the Senate Appropriations Financial Services Subcommittee​ (see 1505120041). TracFone, a low-cost wireless carrier, has emerged as a…
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major player in the Lifeline market. Pai’s “stated concerns about growth in the Lifeline program since 2008 failed to acknowledge the fact that the program had been historically utilized prior to the advent of wireless Lifeline services and that much of the growth in the program merely brought Lifeline participation closer to that of other federal support programs,” TracFone said. “We also discussed the lack of any evidentiary correlation between mandatory minimum charges for Lifeline service and fraudulent enrollment,” the carrier said. The filing was posted in docket 11-42.