The USAC Schools and Libraries Committee is holding their Quarterly Board Meeting today and are recommending to the FCC that the final FY 2009 priority two discount threshold be set at 77%. At the 77% discount rate there is nearly $4.5 million pending in priority two funding requests and this decision impacts 53 applicants and 63 service providers.
It typically takes a few weeks for the FCC to approve USAC’s recommendation.
Here is an analysis of where the final priority two discount rate threshold landed since the inception of the program.