Tag: Emergency Broadband Benefit
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Verizon Will Pay $23.5 Million For TracFone FCC Low-Income Funding Program Violations
The Federal Communications Commission’s Enforcement Bureau reached a settlement with TracFone Wireless, resolving an investigation into whether the Verizon subsidiary violated rules for its Lifeline and Emergency Broadband Benefit programs. After being acquired by Verizon in 2021, TracFone self-identified certain occurrences where the company was found to have violated Lifeline and EBB rules. After reporting…