Comments Due July 10 on NaLA Lifeline Petition as FCC Defends Itself In Court
The Wireline Bureau seeks comment by July 10, replies July 27 on a National Lifeline Association petition for declaratory ruling asking the FCC revoke opt-out certification for Texas' Lifeline accountability database, said a public notice for docket 11-42 in Thursday's…
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Daily Digest. The FCC argued that Lifeline rules foreclose reimbursement for subscribers who don't use the service for 30 consecutive days or who haven't cured their non-usage, in a Thursday respondent's brief in National Lifeline Association v. FCC before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. It said the agency's interpretation of its rules "is correct under established canons of interpretation."