The Idaho Public Utilities Commission asked the FCC...
The Idaho Public Utilities Commission asked the FCC for a permanent waiver of rules requiring Idaho to provide a copy of Lifeline subscribers’ certification forms to the eligible telecom carrier, in a petition Tuesday (http://bit.ly/1cqeqw9). “Special circumstances in Idaho warrant…
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a deviation from the rules,” the PUC said. The state contracts with the Community Action Partnership of Idaho to administer its state and the national Lifeline programs, it said. Because of the way the group gathers and stores information on the state’s subscribers, it would require extensive manual labor to comply with the FCC rules, the PUC said, noting Idaho already has “sufficient safeguards in place to protect against waste, fraud and abuse."