FCC Staff Talks With California, Oregon, Texas on Lifeline Verification
FCC staff is talking with officials in California, Oregon and Texas on agreements to check eligibility of those states' low-income subsidized broadband and phone service subscribers, Chairman Ajit Pai told us after a commissioners' meeting. "I expect those agreements will…
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be reached and [the] verifier stood up in those states by the end of the year. We are making progress." FCC employees are working with other agencies so the national verifier can "ping," or check with, other databases to confirm subscriber eligibility, he said. An announcement, possibly by the FCC, is possible this weekor by Dec. 31 on continuing the national verifier's rollout, officials indicated Thursday. It could involve the three states, which are apparently the last where the NV hasn't been introduced in any fashion. Earlier this week, FCC staff said Florida, Illinois, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin are the next states to get the NV, without setting a hard-launch date. That prompted stakeholders to say the FCC appears to be backing down from a 2016 plan to require the NV in all states by the end of this year.