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The FCC should establish a “safe harbor reflecting...

The FCC should establish a “safe harbor reflecting a minimum level of due diligence” that a Lifeline eligible telecom carrier “should employ to screen for duplicates,” five ETCs told an aide to Chairman Tom Wheeler Thursday, an ex parte filing…

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said (http://bit.ly/1aVLQbC). “It is clear that ETCs can be close to perfect at screening for intra-company duplicates, but they cannot be perfect. The lack of perfection, however, does not signal that an ETC has ignored the Commission’s rules or exploited the Lifeline program,” they said.