Extend Lifeline Waivers, Advocates Ask FCC

Extend Lifeline program waivers from Feb. 28 "to prevent the involuntary de-enrollment of Lifeline subscribers while the public health emergency persists," Free Press and the National Consumer Law Center asked FCC Wireline Bureau staff, per a filing Friday in docket 20-445. They asked the commission to consider an electronic benefit transfer program as a way to confirm eligibility for the $3.2 billion emergency broadband benefit program (see 2102170028).