FCC Sets About $2.9B Lifeline Budget for 2025

The FCC's budget for the Lifeline program for calendar year 2025 will increase roughly $100 million to reach $2.9 billion, a Wireline Bureau public notice said Tuesday in docket 11-42. The bureau noted its July order extending for another year the current minimum service standards for fixed broadband data usage, mobile broadband and mobile voice telephony (see 2407050016).