Carriers Support Creation of National Lifeline Eligibility Database

摘要

Carriers filing replies in the FCC Lifeline proceeding mainly supported the creation of a national eligibility database. “With seven different federal qualifying programs for non-Tribal Lifeline service, it is simply infeasible (and bad public policy) for almost a thousand Lifeline providers to obtain direct access to, possibly, seven different databases per state to confirm consumer eligibility for the Lifeline program,” AT&T said, adding that “almost every commenter” agrees that the database must be national in scope