The FCC should grant Smith Bagley Inc.’s petition for...

The FCC should grant Smith Bagley Inc.’s petition for a partial waiver, in which the independent Lifeline auditor would examine only one of the company’s two largest states, Lukas Nace lawyers David LaFuria and Robert Koppel told Wireline Bureau officials at an Aug. 27 meeting, said an ex parte notice (http://bit.ly/WfJCxh) posted in docket 11-42 Wednesday. SBI operates in only three states and would be the only multiservice operator required to have 100 percent of its operations audited, the Smith Bagley representatives said.