Total Call Mobile Protests Lifeline Snapshot Rule
Representatives of Total Call Mobile said a provision proposed in the June FCC Lifeline order (see 1506180029) establishing “a uniform snapshot date" for Lifeline reimbursements is unfair to carriers, in a meeting with FCC officials. The company gave FCC officials…
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data on its own reimbursement history, said a Wednesday filing in docket 11-42, that "illustrates how TCM would lose revenue each month because customers enroll and dis-enroll in the same month, receive devices and service, but are not counted for the purpose of reimbursement. For example, a customer may enroll on April 2 and dis-enroll on April 15 but TCM would not be reimbursed for the cost of providing service to this customer because April reimbursement is calculated based on the number of subscribers on May 1.” The rule would have cost TCM $921,719 in the first nine months of this year, officials said.