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by Micah Rigdon

Breaking Down Reply Comments to the FCC

The reply comment time period ended on April 21st for the FCC's current "Focused Comment on E-rate Modernization" Public Notice. In all, E-rate stakeholders submitted 144 reply filings to the...

Funds For Learning and E-rate Reform Coalition Reply Comments

Funds For Learning has submitted further comments for the E-rate 2.0 public record, in direct response to the March 6, 2014 FCC Public Notice which sought additional comments from stakeholders...

by Verlyne Jolley

Learning to Work Together

Recently my children have been taking their online student assessment testing. Like many parents in Oklahoma, I was concerned to learn that testing in my children's school district was suspended...

IMLS Seeking USAC E-rate Data Request

On April 18, 2014, The FCC Released a Notice of Request that the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), an independent federal agency, is seeking access to USAC's E-rate...

by Micah Rigdon

Closer Look: Basic Maintenance Demand

Basic maintenance funding requests totaled about $217 million in funding year 2014. This represents about 5% of overall demand. Each year, basic maintenance has represented the smallest category of demand....

by Brian Stephens

Heartbleed’s potential bug bite

By now, you've probably heard about the latest major web security concern. Dubbed ‚ÄòHeartbleed,' the virus is a vulnerability in a popular open source encryption system that allows potentially sensitive...

USAC Releases FY 2014 Demand Estimate

On April 17, 2014, the Universal Service Company (USAC) released their annual demand estimate to the Federal Communications Commission. USAC's estimate of the total program demand for FY 2014 is...

Chairman Wheeler Talks E-rate 2.0

On April 17, 2014 Chairman Wheeler provided opening remarks to an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) public hearing on libraries and broadband. During Chairman Wheeler's opening remarks he...