Lifeline is a government benefit program that provides discounts on monthly telephone or broadband service for eligible low-income consumers to help ensure they have the opportunities and security ...
Lifeline is funded in part by the Universal Service Fund of the Federal Communications Commission. To participate in the program, consumers must either have an income that is at or below 135 percent ...
This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Special LifeLine rates for low-income telephone customers that had been ...
About 100,000 low-income Californians could lose their federal “Lifeline” discount and face higher phone bills if the state approves an official AT&T request to stop offering the service. Why it ...
Suffering heat stroke on an un-air-conditioned Tulsa, Oklahoma, transit bus, Sweet Paula Ogans-Recess' cell phone may very well have saved her life. Losing consciousness as her complexion flushed, she ...
Georgia has become the first state to charge low-income residents $5 a month for what is now free cellphone service aimed at assuring the poor have access to basic communications. The Georgia Public ...
SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) -- The Oregon Public Utility Commission was allocated $3.5 million for the Oregon Lifeline Program to temporarily increase the discount on telephone or high-speed internet service ...