Prepaid Wireless Group, Standup Wireless Urge FCC to Preserve Lifeline Voice Subsidy
Decreasing a $9.25 monthly Lifeline subsidy for voice Dec. 1 "will immediately restrict the availability of voice-only services to low-income Americans, and ultimately result in services being withdrawn," cautioned Prepaid Wireless Group and StandUp Wireless in an FCC filing posted…
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Tuesday in docket 11-42. The companies support this summer's industry petition to pause the FCC plans that also would impose new Lifeline minimum broadband standards (see 1906280012). The companies back proposals from TracFone Wireless and CTIA (see 1911060040) and from Q Link and the National Lifeline Association (see 1911070018) to lower coming broadband standards. Prepaid Wireless CEO Paul Greene and StandUp Chief Operating Officer Eric Schimpf had calls Thursday and Friday with Wireline Bureau Telecom Access Policy Division staff and an aide to Chairman Ajit Pai.