Similarly situated wireless eligible telecommunications carriers do not face the...
Similarly situated wireless eligible telecommunications carriers do not face the same non-usage requirements and procedures, TracFone complained in a filing at the FCC. TracFone is subject to rigorous non-usage requirements under which its customers with no usage during a time…
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period in excess of 60 days are de-enrolled from the Universal Service Fund’s Lifeline program. “TracFone urges the Commission to require all wireless ETCs that provide free airtime minutes to their Lifeline customers, such as Virgin Mobile USA … and others, to implement the same non-usage procedures and requirements as those imposed on TracFone,” the carrier said. Competitive neutrality and the FCC’s interest in limiting use of Lifeline support from the USF only for active customers “compel that all similarly-situated ETCs be subject to the same requirements."