S 1545 A bill to require a quarterly report by the Federal Communications Commission on the Lifeline program funded by the Universal Service Fund

About S.1545

A bill to require a quarterly report by the Federal Communications Commission on the Lifeline program funded by the Universal Service Fund. Requires the Federal Communications Commission to submit a quarterly report to Congress regarding the Lifeline program, which provides discounts on telephone service to qualifying low-income consumers. Requires the reports to include:

• (1) aggregate expenditures on the program;
• (2) a list of each payment made to a participating telecommunications carrier for the provision of service through the program, including, in the case of a participating carrier that is reimbursed for the provision of service to both wireless and wireline subscribers, the amount of the payment that corresponds to each type of service; and
• (3) the average cost per subscriber, across all the participating carriers, to provide the service that the program subsidizes, broken down by wireless and wireline subscribers and averaged per subscriber.