# Lifeline and Link Up Reform and Modernization, Advancing Broadband Availability Through Digital Literacy Training
> **Federal Communications Commission** · Final rule. · Published 2012-03-02 · Effective 2012-04-02 · 77 FR 12952
## Document
- **Document number:** 2012-4978
- **Category:** broadband
- **Federal Register citation:** 77 FR 12952
- **CFR reference:** 47 CFR 54
- **Publication date:** 2012-03-02
- **Effective date:** 2012-04-02
- **FCC docket:** WC Docket Nos. 11-42, 03-109, 12-23 and CC Docket No. 96-45
## Abstract

In this document, the Federal Communications Commission comprehensively reforms and begins to modernize the Universal Service Fund's Lifeline program. The reforms adopted in this document substantially strengthen protections against waste, fraud, and abuse; improve program administration and accountability; improve enrollment and consumer disclosures; initiate modernization of the program for broadband; and constrain the growth of the program in order to reduce the burden on all who contribute to the Universal Service Fund.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2012/03/02/2012-4978/lifeline-and-link-up-reform-and-modernization-advancing-broadband-availability-through-digital)
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