FCC Seeks August Comments on Q Link Petition for Lifeline National Verifier API Capability
Comments are due Aug. 10, replies Aug. 27 on Q Link Wireless' petition asking the FCC to direct Universal Service Administrative Co. to implement machine-to-machine application programming interfaces for its Lifeline national verifier, said a Wireline Bureau public notice in…
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docket 17-287 and Thursday's Daily Digest (see 1807050046). "Q Link requests that the Commission order USAC to implement APIs immediately, prior to the 'hard launch' of the National Verifier in the first six states." Q Link and other Lifeline eligible telecom carriers seek the interfaces to exchange information with USAC, including to establish the eligibility of consumers for the low-income subsidy program.