TracFone Wants Use of Units in Lifeline Plans
TracFone is proposing an alternative to the minimum standards for Lifeline service set to take effect Dec. 1, it told an aide to Commissioner Mike O’Rielly, according to a filing in docket 11-42. Consumers enrolled in wireless Lifeline services would…
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receive 1,000 units per month. “A unit would be either one minute of wireless voice service or 1 MB of mobile broadband service,” the carrier said. “TracFone would provide consumers with up to 1,000 minutes of mobile voice service … or up to 1 GB of mobile broadband data.” The proposal “would afford Lifeline customers flexibility to utilize their wireless Lifeline service as they choose rather than as prescribed by Commission regulation,” the wireless company said.