Wednesday, April 10 marked two weeks since the close of the Form 471 application filing window for Funding Year 2024. USAC encourages applicants who miss the application deadline to certify “out-of-window” and then seek a waiver of the application deadline from the Federal Communications Commission. For FY2024, applicants certified 831 Forms 471 within two weeks of the deadline, up sharply from last year:
In the past five Funding Years, the FCC has granted deadline waivers for an average of 90% of applications certified within two weeks of the deadline:
Applicants and service providers are reminded that in order to receive a waiver of the Form 471 certification deadline, a waiver-request must be submitted to the FCC within the 60-day appeal window. Although the FCC is not required to grant window deadline waivers, they have generally shown leniency to applicants over the past several years.
For applicants that filed before the deadline, nearly 45% of the on-time funding requests are Wave Ready.
