>The Federal Communications Commission will fine a mobile provider $51.1 million for creating tens of thousands of fake Lifeline accounts. The Lifeline program, or “Obama phone” as some call it, subsidizes mobile service for low-income Americans.
>The FCC announced its $51.1 million on Total Call Mobile on Thursday. It would be the largest ever levied against a Lifeline provider, with the FCC saying that it reflects the “seriousness, duration, and scope of TCM’s multiple apparent violations.”
>The commission accused the company of fraudulently enrolling tens of thousands of ineligible and duplicate customers in the Lifeline program, which is meant to help poorer Americans get wireless access. The program is part of the Universal Service Fund, which is paid for by US residents through phone bill surcharges.
>The FCC pegged the amount of ill-gotten gains the company has raked in since 2014 at $9.7 million. During the fourth quarter of that year, 99.8 percent of Total Call’s enrollments in the nationwide program involved overriding a system designed to catch duplicates.
>“Any waste, fraud, or abuse in the Lifeline program diverts scarce funds from the consumers they are meant to serve and undermines the public’s trust in the program and its stewardship,” Travis LeBlanc, head of the FCC’s Enforcement Bureau, said in a Thursday statement.
>Last month, the FCC approved a program to create an independent entity that would verify Lifeline subscriber eligibility in order to reduce fraud.
https://www.rt.com/usa/338989-fcc-fine-mobile-company/
>>37784
>subsidizes mobile service for low-income Americans.
This exact type of shit is what wrong with the world.
Nanny states lead to totalitarianism which leads to a shithole.
>>37814
You're seeing it the wrong way.
>>corruption, cronyism, and contracts with Uncle Sam
There's government, and there's politics; even though I vote Dem/Green, I didn't vote for Barry Sotero because of his Chicago Machine connections....
>>37832
>I vote Dem/Green
just cancel your vote familia
>>37814
The program ha been in place since Reagan's administration and we haven't turned into a nanny state yet Anon.
>Obamaphone
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tpAOwJvTOio
>>37848
>American taxpayer's have been paying for building-sized mobile telephone devices that have been handed out to underachieving nig-nogs since the 80's.
Okay now I'm really mad.
>>37853
/news/
you were soo young. It is soo sad that you have died and are forced to live on as zombie /pol/
>>37905
>It is 2016 and people are still thought-censorsing puritans of language and thinking
>golly gee don't think this,don't say that,don't express whatever
Why do you act like a one-man Gestapo to yourself and other people?
>>37971
>>37971
Being bored by /pol/ s stupid ass ill informed arguments about blacks, women, etc isn't enforcing Puritan values (learn what this means before you use it in a sentence dipshit) it's being bored by a bunch 14 year olds arguing about shit they don't understand. No one opens a fucking book, no reads over journal articles, or looks at any basic stat that doesn't agree with their end goal of shouting the loudest. /pol/ arguments are the same common sense tired buzz word bullshit over and over again.
No one is censoring you by pointing out news is just a rehash of pols stupid fucking arguments where retarded liberals fight with retarded conservatives and no one listens even if a decent point is made. Being asked not to pull news into the fucking gutter (not because of puritanical views on sex, vice, etc.) but because you are expected to actually say something worth a shit before posting.
This isn't censorship it's pointing out being a dumbass isn't anything to proud about. The same retarded lib/con arguments made on pol and news are fucking worthless. Stop playing a victim and acting like a complete pussy.
