CPUC Taps Tracfone for Foster-Youth Pilot
Verizon’s Tracfone was chosen as exclusive service provider for California’s next foster-youth pilot program, the California Public Utilities Commission said Wednesday. T-Mobile provided service for an earlier pilot. Tracfone “pledges to meet all requirements of the Foster Youth Pilot, including…
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providing each eligible participant with a smartphone equipped with hotspot capabilities, a charging device, unlimited voice and text messaging, 25 GB of mobile data, and 10 GB of hotspot data, all at no cost to the participant,” Chari Worster, the CPUC’s California LifeLine program and project supervisor, wrote in an email to the service list for docket R.20-02-008. California commissioners unanimously supported the pilot at their meeting last week (see 2405090063).