The FCC has denied four Applications for Review filed by Assist Wireless, LLC, Boomerang Wireless, LLC, Easy Telephone Services Company, and i-wireless, LLC (collectively, Applicants). The Applicants sought review of an Order adopted by the FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau (Bureau), which rejected the Applicants’ Requests for Review of Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) decisions regarding the Bureau’s Seventh COVID-19 Waiver Order pertaining to the application of certain Lifeline rules during the COVID-19 pandemic. USAC determined that the Applicants submitted upward revisions to their April 2021 reimbursement requests for subscribers who were in their non-usage cure period on May 1, 2021, and therefore were ineligible to be claimed for Applicants’ April 2021 data month. The Bureau affirmed such decision and denied Applicants’ Requests for Review. The FCC has concluded that the Bureau correctly denied Applicants’ Requests for Review and has therefore denied Applicants’ Applications for Review.
