FCC Invites Input on TracFone Lifeline Verifier Request; Sprint, Comcast Seek Actions
Comments are due Dec. 18, replies Dec. 26 on TracFone's petition asking the FCC to direct Universal Service Administrative Co. to make changes to the Lifeline national verifier (NV), said a Wireline Bureau notice Tuesday in docket 11-42. On behalf…
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of its Assurance Wireless affiliate, Sprint asked the FCC to push back USAC Jan. 2 and Jan. 30 deadlines -- to Feb. 14 and March 16 -- for submitting "reverification information for certain customers affected by the launch of the [NV] in Colorado, Mississippi, Montana, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming." Providers weren't advised until Nov. 16 of "availability of the final report listing the subscribers for whom updated documentation was required, and the type of additional documentation being requested," Sprint said. If the FCC decides to eliminate a streamlined eligible telecom carrier designation process, Comcast urged adoption of "guidelines and constraints" to ensure states don't "impose disparate and potentially costly obligations" inconsistent with federal criteria and policies, particularly on services and providers not otherwise under state regulation, it filed on meeting an adviser to Chairman Ajit Pai.