TracFone urged the FCC to allow prepaid wireless and wireline ser...
TracFone urged the FCC to allow prepaid wireless and wireline service providers to continue to contribute to the Universal Service Fund based on their interstate telecom service revenue. It said prepaid wireless service was similar to wireline prepaid calling…
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card service because in both cases there’s no mechanism for seeking reimbursement of the providers’ universal service contributions from consumers due to the lack of billing relationship between the service provider and the end user. Replacing the revenue-based USF contribution methodology with the one based on telephone numbers would produce “significant dislocations” to prepaid wireless service providers and their consumers, TracFone said.