The Divide: Why NaLA says the fight for ACP funds isn't over

This episode features Danielle Perry and Kristi Brown, who are the respective chairs of the National Lifeline Association's regulatory & government affairs committee, and its agent committee.

The National Lifeline Association – or NaLA – is a nonprofit industry group created to preserve and promote the FCC's Lifeline benefit. Outside of their NaLA roles, Perry is also the chief compliance officer at mobile virtual network operator TruConnect; and Brown is the managing director for Community Outreach Partners, which works with service providers on customer acquisitions.

NaLA has also been advocating for the preservation of the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) and recently hosted a Save ACP campaign to push people to contact their member of Congress in support of more funding.

With those calls going as-yet unanswered by Congress, however, and with the program set to be fully exhausted in the next month, we discuss the remaining avenues to save the ACP before people lose access to the monthly broadband subsidy program. We also discuss ways to preserve the program long-term through the Universal Service Fund (USF), and more.

Here are a few topics covered in this conversation:

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