New America Raises Lifeline Concerns With Carr Aide
Representatives of New America’s Open Technology Institute met with an aide to FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr about the future of the Lifeline program. “We reiterated OTI’s longstanding support for Lifeline and our concern that a budget cap could cause eligible…
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Americans to lose access to vital communications services and discourage wireless providers from participating in the program,” the group said in docket 17-287. OTI said the FCC should “fully implement” the national verifier before taking on other systemic changes to the program. Last we were told, Carr hadn't yet voted on the USF budget NPRM (see 1904030026), and he declined to comment about the matter to us on April 12.