FCC Proposes $8M Fine Against K20 Wireless for ACP Violations

FCC commissioners approved a notice of apparent liability of $8 million against K20 Wireless “for apparently willfully and repeatedly violating” affordable connectivity program rules. Also, the carrier will be removed from the program. “From at least June 2022 to May 2023, K20 sought and received ACP Tribal lands support for subscribers who were not eligible for those benefits,” said an order posted Friday. “For approximately 50 percent of these subscribers, the Company, after switching the subscriber’s ACP enrollment to K20, then changed the subscriber’s existing non-Tribal lands home address to a false address on Tribal lands not associated in any way with that subscriber,” the order said: “K20 then sought ACP reimbursement for those subscribers at the rate available for consumers residing on Tribal lands.”