The FCC should establish a “safe harbor reflecting...

The FCC should establish a “safe harbor reflecting a minimum level of due diligence” that a Lifeline eligible telecom carrier “should employ to screen for duplicates,” five ETCs told an aide to Chairman Tom Wheeler Thursday, an ex parte filing said (http://bit.ly/1aVLQbC). “It is clear that ETCs can be close to perfect at screening for intra-company duplicates, but they cannot be perfect. The lack of perfection, however, does not signal that an ETC has ignored the Commission’s rules or exploited the Lifeline program,” they said.