Boost Mobile Founder Raises Verizon/Tracfone Questions
Boost Mobile founder Peter Adderton joined the Communications Workers of America for a call with FCC staff to raise questions about Verizon’s proposed Tracfone buy. Adderton asked the FCC to require the divestiture of Tracfone subscribers currently served by third-party…
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networks. “We noted Verizon’s vague intentions about its plans for TracFone’s 1.7 million low-income customers,” said a filing this week in ITC-T/C-2020093000173: “Rather than providing specific commitments on the Lifeline program, as prior applicants provided in their merger review or as the FCC has required in past mergers, Verizon simply repeats the same vague intention without specifics and without commitments. Absent real enforceable commitments, the proposed Verizon-TracFone transaction could curtail availability of the Lifeline program for low-income consumers from TracFone.” They spoke with officials from the Office of General Counsel, Office of Economics and Analytics and the Wireless and Wireline bureaus.