Lifeline Program Key to Deployment of New Technologies, Tracfone Tells Pai Aides
Representatives of TracFone Wireless met with aides to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai to discuss the Lifeline program and whether it will be affected by the way the FCC would classify broadband as a result of the pending net neutrality rules.…
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The preamble to the Telecom Act says it's “AN ACT To promote competition and reduce regulation in order to secure lower prices and higher quality services for American telecommunications consumers and encourage the rapid deployment of new telecommunications technologies,” TracFone said. “There is no more appropriate way to encourage and hasten the deployment of new technologies (and services utilizing those new technologies) than to expand the base of users of services which utilize those technologies,” TracFone told the Pai aides, said a filing in docket 17-108. TracFone said it met last week with senior Pai adviser Nick Degani and wireline aide Jay Schwarz.