TracFone Wireless said Friday it supported a recent...
TracFone Wireless said Friday it supported a recent request by Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., for an audit of the FCC’s USF Lifeline program and urged lawmakers to impose further reforms of the program. “In our view, all responsible Lifeline wireless…
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service providers will embrace such additional scrutiny,” said the company in a news release. Reforms to the program are “working, but additional steps must be taken to further streamline the program and reduce opportunities for waste, fraud and abuse,” the company said. Last week, McCaskill urged the U.S. Comptroller General to conduct a forensic audit of the FCC’s USF Lifeline program to prevent fraud and abuse in the program. McCaskill previously sponsored a failed amendment to this year’s budget resolution that sought to end the program.