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Air Voice Wireless Seeks Expanded Lifeline Footprint

Air Voice Wireless asked the FCC to designate it an eligible telecommunications carrier to provide Lifeline service in Connecticut, Delaware, North Carolina and the District of Columbia. The carrier is an MVNO that uses AT&T’s network. “AIRVOICE has already demonstrated…

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its ability to provide Lifeline services as it has grown to serve over 800,000 households, while maintaining strong processes to protect against waste, fraud, and abuse,” said a filing posted Friday in docket 09-197. The carrier notes it provides Lifeline service in 39 states and Puerto Rico. “AIRVOICE has historically reached and enrolled customers in suburban, exurban, and rural areas outside of high-density urban areas” and some 200,000 of its Lifeline customers are "first-time Lifeline enrollees,” the company said.