FCC Chairman Kevin Martin aims to fast-track a TracFone request t...
FCC Chairman Kevin Martin aims to fast-track a TracFone request to become an eligible telecommunications carrier (ETC) for the Universal Service Fund (USF) LifeLine and LinkUp program, he told a Thursday press conference. Approving TracFone’s request would “add an…
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additional service option” for low-income consumers, he said. The request had been held up because it was included in the USF cap proposal, Martin said. Last month, he circulated it as a separate order, he said. “The cap has not moved forward yet, and as a result I don’t think it’s fair to hold the grant of this particular application up any longer,” Martin said. Meanwhile, Martin didn’t know if the interim cap proposal would progress soon, he said. “But I hope so.”