Clyburn Decries FCC's Lifeline Reseller Service Option Direction
Eliminating the reseller service option from the Lifeline program would be cemented in the net neutrality order (see 1711270042) with its confirmation that only facilities-based providers can participate, Commissioner Mignon Clyburn said Monday at a Connect South Carolina Community Technology…
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Action Plan event, according to comments posted on the FCC website. She said regardless of where one stands on net neutrality, that FCC action is one of the most "pointed attack[s] on the economically disadvantaged" in recent agency history. With Lifeline "in trouble," its backers have to partner with providers and local and state authorities to let the agency know of that requirement's effects, she said. Clyburn said the agency still hopes in 2018 to hold a Connect America Fund Phase II auction, with a Mobility Fund Phase II auction "close behind." She said the agency is working to streamline deployment through the Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee but that effort "seems to be not entirely consensus based," with limited state and local representation.