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Lifeline phone service goes wireless TELEPHONES Only landlines have been covered in past - now homeless, low-income can keep in touch By Kevin Fagan , Reporter Updated March 4, 2013 8:46 p.m.
Consumers can have a LifeLine wireless phone and an ACP-subsidized broadband line, Salas said, but the two cannot be bundled into one package.
‘A windfall to wireless’ Some 1.7 million California residents are enrolled in the state’s Lifeline program, which is an offshoot of the federal Lifeline program.
COVINGTON, Ga., April 15, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Life Wireless, the Lifeline Assistance Program's wireless service provider for Telrite Holdings, honors its continued commitment to providing low ...
A day before the California Public Utilities Commission was to vote on a rule that would have shrunken subsidies low-income residents use for phone and internet services, officials pulled the item ...
Safelink Wireless, a Lifeline-supported phone carrier, explains that customers already on Lifeline will not have to take any action to continue receiving their Lifeline discount.
September 25, 2024 The 988 suicide lifeline doesn't always connect callers to nearby help — an issue the FCC seeks to change Under a proposed rule, wireless carriers would be required to use ...
People on Medicaid are eligible for discounts from cell phone companies like Safelink through Lifeline even after the Affordable Connectivity Program ends.