FCC Launches Carrier API for Lifeline Enrollment
The FCC launched an application programming interface Lifeline carriers can use to verify a potential enrollee's eligibility, the agency said Tuesday. The API connects a carrier's enrollment system to the Lifeline program's national eligibility verifier run by Universal Service Administrative…
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Co. FCC Chairman Ajit Pai said that now, "Lifeline will be a more efficient tool for connecting some of our most vulnerable citizens to broadband." The API initially launched in a test (see 1910100007). CTIA thinks these efforts "to enhance the National Eligibility Verifier with new features that can make it easier for millions of low income Americans" using the subsidized wireless, said Matt Gerst, vice president-regulatory affairs, in a statement. It's "a positive step forward which can serve as a building block to make the National Verifier more efficient and effective for all stakeholders," emailed Lifeline lawyer John Heitmann of Kelley Drye. The FCC and USAC didn't provide details of what's involved with the API.