FCC Record, Volume 28, No. 7, Pages 5007 to 5986, April 18 - April 30, 2013 Page: 5,050
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Federal Communications Commission DA 13-725
Before the
Federal Communications Commission
Washington, DC 20554
In the Matter of )
S Richardson' ) File No.: EB-13-IH-0511
Illegal Receipt of Duplicate )
Lifeline Support )
CITATION AND ORDER
Adopted: April 18, 2013 Released: April 18, 2013
By the Deputy Chief, Investigations and Hearings Division, Enforcement Bureau:
1. This is an official CITATION AND ORDER issued pursuant to Section 503(b)5) of the
Communications Act of 1934, as amended (Communications Act),2 to S Richardson ("you") for
violations of the Federal Communications Commission's rules for the Universal Service Lifeline
Program, which helps qualifying low income consumers get access to phone service.'
2. According to our records, you currently receive Lifeline-supported service on five
customer accounts from the following companies: Easy Telephone Services Co. d/b/a Easy Wireless;
TerraCom Inc., d/b/a TerraCom Wireless; True Wireless, LLC; and Assist Wireless, LLC. As you should
know, your household can have only one Lifeline-supported phone service.4 When you signed up for
Lifeline-supported phone service, you should have signed a form where you certified, under penalty of
perjury, that you and other members of your household do not already have Lifeline-supported phone
service.5 You also should have certified that you were eligible for Lifeline service, and that all of the
information in your application was truthful.6
3. By obtaining Lifeline service from multiple providers, you violated the rule limiting each
household to only one Lifeline-supported phone service, and you apparently made multiple false
certifications that are punishable by law. Therefore, we ORDER you to cease and desist from
1 The name of the recipient of this Citation and Order has been redacted in part to protect the recipient's personal
privacy interests. See 5 U.S.C. 552(a); see also 47 C.F.R. 0.455(g) ("To the extent required to prevent a clearly
unwarranted invasion of personal privacy ... the Commission may delete identifying details or confidential
information when it makes available or publishes any document described in this section."). We take this action
because, in this case, the individual's identity has no bearing or effect on the subject matter of the document, and
there is no need for the general public to know it. Therefore, at this juncture, the interest in protecting the private
citizen's right to be secure in his or her personal affairs outweighs any purported interest the public might have in
knowing the individual's identifying information.
2 47 U.S.C. 503(b)5).
3 The Commission is issuing this Citation and Order pursuant to Section 503(b)(5) of the Communications Act of
1934, as amended, 47 U.S.C. 503(b)(5).
4See 47 U.S.C. 54.410(d)(3).
s See 47 C.F.R. 54.410(d)(3)(vi).
6See 47 C.F.R. 54.410(d)(3).5050
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