With NARUC OK'ing Lifeline Request to FCC, NaLA Backs Resolution
With NARUC's membership OK'ing a resolution the FCC temporarily halt changes to Lifeline Wednesday at their meeting in Indianapolis, the National Lifeline Association backed the request. The resolution the bipartisan NARUC Telecom Committee OK'd Tuesday (see 1907230040) "underscores the need…
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to implement robust API connectivity and state database access prior to hard launching the National Verifier" that will check whether people are eligible for the government subsidized services for the poor, emailed NaLA counsel John Heitmann. The resolution asks the FCC and Universal Service Administrative Co. to delay requiring more states use the NV until an application program interface is available or Dec. 31, whichever occurs later. "Fix it first is the right strategy," Heitman said Tuesday. "As industry and the public interest community have joined together to recognize, it is time to pause and study minimum service standard changes that would effectively impose substantial price hikes on low-income consumers for mobile broadband while denying them the choice of affordable voice services. Adding the states‘ support to the pending request for FCC relief rounds out the broad-based coalition seeking FCC action." The agency declined to comment and USAC hasn't commented.