Explain Need for ACP Alternative Verification, FCC Tells Charter, Cox, Starry
The FCC Wireless Bureau gave broadband providers Charter Communications, Cox Communications and Starry a June 15 deadline for explaining their need to use an alternative to the national verifier system for verifying subscribers' eligibility to take part in the Affordable…
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Connectivity Program, per letters (Charter, Cox and Starry) Wednesday. In the letters, the bureau also directs the three to confirm through the National Verifier the eligibility of their ACP subscribers approved via those companies' alternative processes. "We remain concerned that alternative verification processes, although allowed by the law, may result in improper enrollments," potentially resulting in ACP waste, fraud or abuse, the bureau said.