Dish Contests USAC Eligibility Findings
Dish Wireless objected at the FCC to a Universal Service Administrative Co. finding that some households it served under the affordable connectivity program and emergency broadband benefit program were ineligible and didn’t comply with USAC’s one-per-household rule.
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Without evidence, “USAC declares that the addresses with which certain subscribers are associated do not appear to reasonably accommodate the number of households the National Verifier approved,” Dish said in an appeal posted Friday in docket 20-445. USAC makes that claim even though it previously approved those subscribers without explaining how it “determined the number of households an address can reasonably accommodate” or disclosing “the number of subscribers each address could accommodate,” the provider said. Instead, USAC “attempts to pass the responsibility to DISH to now prove each subscriber’s eligibility.” Parts of the filing were redacted.