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California LifeLine Team
August 9, 2017
www.californialifeline.com
SUMMARY OF
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
LOW-INCOME PROGRAMS
FOR THE EMERGING
TRENDS COMMITTE
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California LifeLine Historical Participation
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Map of California LifeLine Participants by County
Inyo
Kern
San Bernardino
Fresno
Riverside
Tulare
Siskiyou
Lassen
Modoc
Imperial
Mono
ShastaTrinity
San Diego
Humboldt
Tehama
Monterey
Plumas
Los Angeles
ButteMendocino
Madera
Lake
Merced
Kings
Yolo
Ventura
Placer
Tuolumne
Glenn
SonomaEl Dorado
Santa Barbara
Colusa
Sierra
Mariposa
San Luis Obispo
Napa
Stanislaus
Solano
San Benito
NevadaYuba
Alpine
San Joaquin
Santa Clara
Del Norte
Orange
MarinCalaveras
Sutter
Alameda
SacramentoAmador
Contra Costa
San Mateo
Santa Cruz
San Francisco
Data as of June 30, 2017
Number of Participants
11 - 2,000
2,001 - 10,000
10,001 - 20,000
20,001 - 70,000
70,001 - 150,000
150,001 - 600,000
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California LifeLine Participation by County
Data as of June 30, 2017
Number of Participants by Service Provider
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Rank Service ProviderNumber of
Participants% of Total
1 Virgin Mobile USA 410,741 22.34%
2 AT&T (SBC) 314,798 17.12%
3 TracFone Wireless 309,536 16.83%
4 Amerimex Communications 166,384 9.05%
5 TruConnect Communications 163,649 8.90%
6 Telrite Corporation 115,925 6.30%
7 Frontier (fka Verizon CA) 87,549 4.76%
8 Boomerang Wireless 83,330 4.53%
9 Air Voice Wireless 62,111 3.38%
10 TAG Mobile 26,472 1.44%
11 Cox Comm. 20,025 1.09%
12 i-wireless 19,080 1.04%
13 Blue Jay Wireless 12,482 0.68%
14 Tcast (Blue Casa) 9,662 0.53%
15 Time Warner Cable 7,276 0.40%
16 Frontier (Citizens CA) 3,757 0.20%
17 TC Telephone 2,973 0.16%
Jun-17
Rank Service ProviderNumber of
Participants% of Total
35 Ducor 323 0.02%
36 Frontier (SWWC 1) 309 0.02%
37 Calaveras 277 0.02%
38 TDS (Happy Valley) 244 0.01%
39 Sebastian (Foresthill) 209 0.01%
40 SureWest (Televideo) 99 0.01%
41 Brighthouse 58 0.00%
42 Free Choice (PCS1) 38 0.00%
43 TDS (Hornitos) 37 0.00%
44 TDS (Winterhaven) 29 0.00%
45 Pinnacles 6 0.00%
46 Astound BB (Wave) 4 0.00%
47 EnhancedComm 4 0.00%
48 Race Technologies 4 0.00%
49 Sage 3 0.00%
50 Matrix (Vartec) 2 0.00%
51 Matrix 1 0.00%
52 CuraTel, LLC (Adir) - 0.00%
Jun-17
Rank Service ProviderNumber of
Participants% of Total
18 ConnectTo 2,553 0.14%
19Global Connection Inc. of
America 2,405 0.13%
20 Budget PrePay 2,304 0.13%
21 Sierra 1,961 0.11%
22 SureWest (Roseville) 1,855 0.10%
23 MCI 1,499 0.08%
24 Sebastian (Kerman) 1,485 0.08%
25 AT&T Comm. 1,273 0.07%
26 Frontier (Global Valley) 1,027 0.06%
27 Charter 911 0.05%
28 Volcano 779 0.04%
29 Ponderosa 690 0.04%
30 Siskiyou 618 0.03%
31 Frontier (Tuolumne) 611 0.03%
32 Frontier (Golden State) 580 0.03%
33 Cal Ore 449 0.02%
34 Frontier (SWWC) 370 0.02%
Jun-17
Data as of June 30, 2017
Does Not Receive Federal Lifeline Support
California LifeLine Budget and Expenditures
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FY 12-13 FY 13-14 FY 14-15 FY 15-16 FY 16-17 FY 17-18 Authorized Budget (in millions) $280,000 $282,732 $298,646 $483,530 $485,780 $630,046 Actual Expenditures (in millions) $186,260 $185,286 $292,986 $464,921 $324,071
*FY 16-17 actual expenditures as of May 31, 2017 Fiscal Reports
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California LifeLine Monthly Discount* • Effective January 1, 2017, the Specific Support Amount (SSA) is $13.75
• Method for Calculating the SSA is in General Order 153 Section § 8.5
Uniform Regulatory Framework (URF) Carriers of Last Resort (COLRs) participating in California LifeLine are required to submit a rate sheet of all their basic flat and measured service rates effective July 31st of each year for the purposes of computing the SSA.
8.5.2 CD will reset the SSA annually , effective January 1 of each year, at 55% of the highest reported URF COLR rate, rounded to the nearest $0.05.
8.5.3 In subsequent years, the SSA will be set and reported to California LifeLine Service Providers via an Administrative Letter using the same computation methodology set forth in Section 8.5.2.
*California LifeLine participants are also exempt from paying the universal service charges. As an example, a $100 phone bill exempts a California LifeLine participant from paying about $2.40 in both federal and state universal service charges. The savings from this exemption is in addition to the monthly SSA.
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California LifeLine Non-Recurring Discount
Discount
Type
Frequency of Discount
Discounted Service Connection Rate
Reimbursable Activities for Service Connections
Wireline
Up to $39
Service Connection or Service Conversion
Unlimited
$10
4 Types
Wireless
Up to $39
Service Connection
Limit of 2 Per Year
$0
2 Types
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Program-Based Eligibility
• Women, Infants and Children Program (WIC)
• National School Lunch Program (NSLP)
• Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP)
• Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)
1. California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs)
2. Stanislaus County Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (StanWORKs)
3. Welfare-to-Work (WTW)
4. Greater Avenues for Independence (GAIN)
• Medicaid/Medi-Cal
• CalFresh, Food Stamps or Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
• Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
• Federal Public Housing Assistance or Section 8
• Federal Veterans and Survivors Pension Benefit Program
• Bureau of Indian Affairs General Assistance
• Head Start Income Eligible (Tribal Only)
• Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations (FDPIR)
• Tribal TANF
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Income-Based Eligibility (uses 150% of FPG*)
Household Size Household’s Annual
Income Limit
1-2 $26,400
3 $30,700
4 $37,300
5 $43,900
6 $50,500
7 $57,100
8 $63,700
9 $70,300
10 $76,900
Each Additional
Member
$6,600 *FPG is the acronym for Federal Poverty Guideline.
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California LifeLine Participation Rate*
135% of FPG
2,609,348
70%
150% of FPG
2,931,475
63%
200% of FPG
4,021,957
46%
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*June 2017 volume of participants was 1,838,767. The California Department of Finance provided the volume of eligible households using the 2015 American Community Survey. FPG is the acronym for Federal Poverty Guideline.
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Upcoming Changes from the FCC
Near Term = Year 2017 and Beyond
California’s Extension
from the FCC to Implement
Restrictive Eligibility
Criteria Ends (Oct. 31, 2017)
Minimum Standards for Mobile Voice
Telephony Services and BIAS Increase
(Dec. 1, 2017) (Dec. 1, 2018)
Monthly Monetary
Support for All Voice
Telephony Services
Decreases to $7.25
(Dec. 1, 2019)
Consumers in All States Use the National
Lifeline Eligibility Verifier
(Dec. 31, 2019)
Monthly Monetary
Support for All Voice
Telephony Services
Decreases to $5.25
(Dec. 1, 2020)
Monthly Monetary
Support for All Voice
Telephony Services
Stops* & BIAS Required in
All Supported Service Plans (Dec. 1, 2021)
*exception if the only ETC in the Census block then get $5.25