Ex-FCC commissioner protests outside FCC HQ to protect Lifeline service [telecom]

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By Mark Pattison

WASHINGTON (CNS) - Gloria Tristani, who served for four years on the Federal Communications Commission, spent part of her day Sept. 26 protesting outside FCC headquarters in Washington - as the current commissioners were meeting.

She was there to demonstrate against potential drastic cuts to the FCC's "Lifeline" program, which was put in place 12 years before Tristani began her 1997-2001 tenure at the FCC.