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FCC Seeks Comments on NTCA, TracFone Requests for Lifeline Minimum Service Relief

The FCC invited input on two bids for relief from Lifeline minimum service standards. Comments are due Aug. 30, replies Sept. 14 on an NTCA request, on behalf of RLECs, for temporary waiver from updated Wireline Bureau Lifeline minimum standards…

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for fixed broadband service that take effect Dec. 1 (see 1807240014), said a bureau public notice Tuesday in docket 11-42. The same comment dates were set on TracFone's request for a Section 54.408(b) waiver or a ruling it could comply with minimum service standards by giving customers "a specified quantity of 'units' per month" (see 1807260028), said another PN.