Lifeline National Verifier Hard Launched in 6 States
The FCC confirmed the Lifeline national verifier (NV) hard launch in six states Friday. The commission "is not aware of any problems so far, but the agency and [Universal Service Administrative Co.] will be watching closely to be sure that…
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the National Verifier is determining eligibility appropriately for consumers in those six states," emailed a spokesperson. There weren't any issues in Colorado or Montana, state commission spokespersons said. It’s too early to know whether the hard launch is going smoothly, given limitations during the soft launch and unresolved FCC issues pending, said an industry official. Lifeline providers and a NARUC official last month objected to hard launch in Colorado, Mississippi, Montana, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming without an electronic interface for carriers and access to databases to check consumer eligibility (see 1810040045). Q Link Wireless petitioned the FCC for waiver to use alternative means for NV confirmation of applicant eligibility in hard-launch states before agency resolution of the provider's previous petition to implement application programming interfaces permitting USAC-carrier machine-to-machine communications during enrollments. NV's online portals are "impossible for Q Link to access without an API," it said, posted Thursday in docket 17-287.