States asked the FCC to promptly adopt a three-year Lifeline and ...
States asked the FCC to promptly adopt a three-year Lifeline and Link-Up pilot program for broadband. In a letter Friday to the FCC commissioners, the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners said the new Universal Service Fund program should…
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be open to all broadband providers. Participating carriers shouldn’t automatically be designated eligible for other USF programs, but the FCC should require any provider receiving USF from another program to participate and contribute to the pilot program, NARUC said. The Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service should study how the program is carried out and decide whether to expand the pilot into a national program. States should handle the eligibility and verification for low-income participants, it said.