Carriers Meet Trusty on Lifeline Applications for Review
Counsel for Assist Wireless, enTouch Wireless, Easy Wireless and Access Wireless met with FCC Commissioner Olivia Trusty, asking for the agency to grant the companies' applications for review on upward revisions for reimbursement of services provided in the last month of the Lifeline COVID-19 waiver period (see 2504030027). In June, Chairman Brendan Carr circulated an order that would deny the carriers’ requests (see 2506270060).
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Contrary to assertions made in a news release on the order, “the Companies have not sought to extend the final non-usage waiver,” said a filing posted Tuesday in docket 11-42. “Nor have they sought to game the system or to cost the American public millions of dollars in unjustified expenditures.”