In Funding Year 2023, applicants nationwide requested discounts on more than $1.7 billion of Category One lit fiber services, four times more than all other types of Category One service combined.
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For Category Two, switching, routing, and wireless equipment made up almost 70% of the total pre-discount funding requested.
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Funding Year 2023 requests were filed by 21,185 unique applicants across the country. Category One applications were filed by 93.4% of applicants, while 47.9% filed Category Two applications.