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Thanks for your feedback @alipps1. You may now join the club consisting of the multitudes of unhappy QLink campers. My guess is that the club is growing exponentially by the day with disgruntled subscribers.

The most likely scenario is that QLink Wireless is hanging by a thin thread in terms of its litigation troubles, the mounting FCC complaints, and the ongoing federal investigation against them for a colorful variety of fraud allegations. As you likely already know, back in June, 2021, QLink's corporate headquarters were raided by agents from the FBI, the Department of Justice, the IRS, the US Postal Service, the United States Secret Service, and a number of deputies from the Broward County, Florida, Sheriff's Department. A very detailed and item-specific search warrant was executed. Footage surfaced later that day of agents removing dozens of boxes of records, documents, computers, printers, etc., from QLink's headquarters. Because the investigation is still ongoing, many details have remained hush-hush regarding the evidence seized by the authorities, as well as the particulars of the criminal allegations against the Lifeline provider. A US Postal Service Inspector, Ivan Rodriguez, has went on the record to state that the investigation is "pretty involved," "complicated" and "detailed," and that the investigation itself has been "years in the making." https://wsvn.com/news/local/multi-a...ink-wireless-corporate-office-in-dania-beach/

To add to the bizarre circumstances surrounding these criminal allegations, the founder of QLink, Issa Asad, was charged in 2014 with killing a groundskeeper who worked at QLink. While the details are a bit scant, Mr. Asad apparently ran over the worker with his vehicle folowing some type of dispute between the two men over money in the amount of $65. Days later, the groundskeeper ultimately died from his injuries. Asad ended up pleading no contest to negligent homicide and was sentenced to a term of probation. Nearly two decades before this incident, in 1995, Asad was arrested ahd charged with aggravated battery of a police officer, a conviction also resulting in a sentence of probation. On a positive note, however, Asad did make headlines just a few years back when he provided thousands of free cell phones to Texas residents following Hurricane Harvey. (Hey, the guy has some heart at least.)

Earlier this year, the FCC proposed a fine of $62 million against QLink for embellishing reimbursement requests amounting to over $20 million with the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) for devices covered by the Emergency Broadband Benefit (EBB). The FCC found that the figures were grossly overstated. Namely, QLink listed the retail price of the Scepter 8 tablet as $110 on a blog on its website. QLink over claimed support for "hundreds of thousands of computer tablets," bagging around $20.8 million total in bolstered support claims from the ACP and EBB. Lo and behold, with the tablet being branded by a mobile service provider (QLink Wireless), the FCC, ACP and EBB were all led to believe that the Scepter 8 was integrated with cellular data support, and as we all know it's a WiFi only tablet with substantially limited hardware capabilities. The QLink Scepter 8 has to be the only carrier-branded mobile device in history that has no carrier capabilities. This would be highly akin, for example, of AT&T branding & marketing a WiFi-only smartphone, or General Electric branding a heater that runs only on kerosene.

Using very plain language, the FCC has also threatened to remove QLink from the list of ACP providers, and revoke QLink's commission authorizations. This would include its Section 214 status which permits QLink to provide wireless service in support of these government initiatives. This matter is likewise still under review by the FCC, pending QLink's written reply to the allegations, for which the FCC has given them a period of 50 days to submit. It is also clear that QLink falsely promotes its Lifeline + ACP data plans as "Always-On" & "Unlimited." (I am referring to monthly plans provided to those subscribers who receive both LifeLine and ACP benefits from QLink alone. Standard monthly plans for subscribers receiving only LifeLine benefits from QLink are allotted 4.5 GB of 4G-LTE/5G cellular data.) Contrary to QLink's claims, many subscribers who exceed 29 GB of 4G-LTE/5G data usage during a single billing period are not merely throttled to dial-up internet speeds, but lose data connectivity entirely until data plan refills occur on the 1st of the following month. At least 150 complaints regarding this matter alone have been filed to the FCC to date, against QLink from unhappy subscribers. Facts are now coming to light as well that QLink is receiving full EBB and ACP reimbursement for high-speed and unthrottled cellular data allegedly provided to its subscribers. However, any QLink subscriber can attest to the extremely throttled bandwidth of its 4G-LTE/5G data, as well as the loss of data connectivity or the virtually unusable data speeds imposed once the cap of 29 GB of data has been exceeded during a billing cycle. This is neither "unlimited" nor "always on" as QLink advertises. The lies and fraud are now mounting so as to hopefully culminate in some long-awaited Karma to balance the scales of justice.

Sorry I got long-winded and certainly loquacious in my reply. I've been closely following these matters involving QLink for some time now, and wanted to inform any interested QLink subscribers of these facts and developments.​