Madison – April 27, 2023 – The Public Service Commission of Wisconsin (PSC or Commission) today awarded $139,929.92 in funding from the Universal Service Fund Lifeline Outreach Grant Program to two recipients. The grants were awarded to entities that will…
Washington, DC – January 26, 2023 – The Federal Communications Commission today proposed rules to help ensure that the public has access to the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline if a service outage occurs. The proposed rules would require 988…
Ninety percent of households enrolled in the Lifeline or Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) low-income broadband programs say they can’t afford a co-pay, according to a report from the National Lifeline Association (NaLA) based on a survey of Lifeline and ACP…
The FCC has linked the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) and Lifeline program with the Veterans Benefits Administration in order to make it easier for the eligibility of veterans to be verified. The Veterans Benefits Administration is part of the U.S….
WASHINGTON, July 15, 2022—On Saturday, July 16, the U.S. will transition the 10-digit National Suicide Prevention Lifeline to 988 – an easy-to-remember three-digit number for 24/7 crisis care. The time of more than 200 state and local call centers funded by HHS…
TracFone Wireless — now a unit of Verizon — has agreed to pay $13.4 million in a settlement with the regulator and the U.S. Department of Justice for alleged violations of the FCC Lifeline program that occurred before Verizon acquired…
At-risk individuals will be able to text 988 to contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline as a result of a new FCC order, with the texting option to be fully supported by carriers by July 16, 2022. The Lifeline was…
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and utility regulators are highlighting the Lifeline and Emergency Broadband Benefit (EBB) telecom programs for low-income consumers as part of Lifeline Awareness Week, which runs through Friday. Part of the reason the regulators may be…
T-Mobile has made the 988 emergency lifeline number available nationwide to its customers. Callers will automatically be connected to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, which consists of about 180 local and state funded crisis centers with professionally trained counselors. The…
T-Mobile has agreed to pay a civil penalty to settle an FCC Sprint Lifeline investigation dating back over a year. The Sprint Lifeline settlement is for $200 million. The Lifeline program, administered by the FCC, pays service providers $9.25 a…
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai is recommending that the minimum monthly data allotment for the low-income Lifeline program should be 4.5 gigabytes (GB) per month. The Pai Lifeline proposal represents an increase from the current 3 GB standard, but considerably less…