StandUp Wireless Seeks Limited EBB Waiver

Allow emergency broadband benefit providers to receive reimbursement for tablets that can make cellular calls, StandUp Wireless asked FCC Wireline Bureau staff in an ex parte letter posted Tuesday in docket 20-445. StandUp filed a petition in October seeking a waiver of EBB rules excluding these devices. Its EBB customers "are frustrated with their inability to use their connected device to fully utilize the company’s bundled service offering of unlimited voice, text and 8 GB of mobile broadband data" because it "had to remove the cellular voice and text functionality from the tablets," the company said.