E-rate News

November 8, 2006

USAC Highlights Administrative Procedures

The FCC’s Fifth Report and Order directed USAC to submit to the Commission a list summarizing “all current USAC administrative procedures”. These procedures highlighted are not rules explicitly laid out...

November 7, 2006

USAC Issues Quarterly Report

The Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) reported to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that approximately $650 million is available from Funding Years 2001-2004 for future use. Based on the FCC's...

November 2, 2006

SLD Releases 2001, 2003, 2005 and 2006 Funding Waves

The SLD released several funding waves this week. The following is a summary of the commitments:

October 29, 2006

Consortium FCC decisions in 2006

To date in 2006, the FCC has released two decisions addressing consortia and acceptable evidence of authority to represent consortium members. The first case was released May 26, 2006. In...

October 26, 2006

Applicant Receives Funding Year 1999 Commitment

The SLD released wave 20Q FY 1999 this week committing close to $74,000 to the Suffolk Coop Library System. The last time the SLD committed a 1999 wave was on...

October 23, 2006

SLD Notifies 90% Discount Rate Applicants about 2006 Funding Requests

The SLD released wave 27 FY 2006 committing nearly $264 million and notifying almost 1800 applicants and over 1000 service providers about the status of their funding requests. The bulk...

October 19, 2006

Form 471 Filing Window Announced

The SLD announced today that the Form 471 window will open on November 14, 2006 and will close on February 7, 2007. Additionally the 2007 Eligible Services List has been...

October 15, 2006

Fall Congressional E-rate Update

Over the course of the last year both the House and Senate have started to debate and review our communications laws and to update them for the current regulatory and...