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TracFone representatives urged the FCC to make two...

TracFone representatives urged the FCC to make two changes to rules for its Lifeline program, during a meeting with Wireline Bureau officials. TracFone pressed for action on its May 2012 petition asking the FCC to require that Lifeline providers retain…

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and make available, for audit eligibility, documentation which applicants are required to produce, said an ex parte filing (http://bit.ly/1krvITP). The company also asked the agency to address its May proposal that the commission prohibit in-person distribution of handsets associated with Lifeline-supported service. “Such a prohibition will eliminate the widely-criticized practice engaged in by some providers of handing out phones on street corners, out of car trunks, at parks and fairs, and other locations,” the carrier said. “Such practices have been ... subject to numerous videos and other news reports and have besmirched the entire Lifeline industry and those who regulate it.”