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August 23, 2006

SLD Commits $15 Million in 2006; $8 Million in 2005

This week the SLD notified over 325 applicants and 325 service providers about the status of their 2006 funding requests, committing $15 million. The SLD has committed $619,754,270 and still...

August 21, 2006

FCC Issues Four More Appeals

Last week the FCC issued four appeals all of which continue the recent trend of applicant friendly decisions. Last week the FCC issued four appeals all of which continue the...

August 17, 2006

FCC Continues to Remand Additional Applications Back to SLD

The FCC consolidated 29 cases where the SLD mistakenly concluded that applicants violated the competitive bidding regulations.¬† Before Funding Year 2004, based on the "Tennessee Order", the FCC required that...

August 16, 2006

SLD Releases 2005 and 2006 Funding Waves

The SLD notified 730 applicants and 567 service providers about the status of their 2006 requests committing $22.5 million.¬† The SLD has committed $604,683,235 and has $2,831,453,884 pending.

2001 and 2004 Funding Waves Released

The SLD notified 11 schools in Puerto Rico that their 2001 applications have been denied. The denial of the 11 schools is close to $920,000. The SLD denied these applicants...

SLD Releases Wave 16 Funding Year 2006

The SLD notified 471 applicants and 388 service providers about the status of their 2006 funding requests. The SLD committed $17 million this week which leaves 2,880,714,175 pending in 2006.

Funds For Learning Comments on Draft Eligible Services List

Funds For Learning has filed a response to the USAC Draft E-rate Eligible Services List for Funding Year 2007.

USAC Issues Quarterly Report

The Universal Service Administrative Company this week reported to the Federal Communications Commission that it still had a total of $365 million in undisbursed E-rate funding available to roll-over for...