Q Link Executives Raise Concerns in FCC Meetings on Lifeline Minimums
CEO Issa Asad and other Q Link executives met with FCC Commissioner Mike O’Rielly, aides to Chairman Ajit Pai and Commissioner Geoffrey Starks, and Wireline Bureau staff on a pending petition by CTIA, the National Consumer Law Center and others…
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to pause December implementation of Lifeline minimum service standards, pending a market study. “Q Link is part of a wide and deep coalition of stakeholders supporting the Joint Petition’s request to pause any increases in the mobile broadband minimum service standard and to retain full Lifeline support for standalone voice and voice-centric bundles until the Commission can study the impact of such changes on access to and affordability of Lifeline services for low-income consumers and report on such findings,” it filed, posted Friday in docket 17-287. “Failure to grant the Joint Petition would result in less broadband for Lifeline subscribers.”