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May 2026

MAY 26, 2026 Why USAC Keeps Changing Your Internal Connections Categories — And What To Do About It PIA & reviews MAY 26, 2026 Your Application Looks Clean. Here’s What Could Still Cost You the Funding. PIA & reviews MAY 19, 2026 Funds For Learning Submits Comments on USAC Reform — Here’s What We Said, and What Others Are Saying PIA & reviews MAY 19, 2026 USAC Is Scrutinizing Contract Dates on FY2025 Funding Requests. Here’s What That Means for Yours. Funding windows MAY 19, 2026 What Trips Applicants Up at Invoicing, and How to Stay Ahead of It Funding windows MAY 19, 2026 Why Your CEP Base Year May Be Getting Changed in PIA PIA & reviews MAY 19, 2026 FCC Opens Investigation Into Potential E-Rate Misuse in Minnesota Policy & FCC MAY 13, 2026 Five Years of E-Rate Procurement: A Program That Works Funding windows MAY 13, 2026 Your Funding Year 2026 FCDL Just Landed. Here’s How to Read It in the Next 10 Minutes. Funding windows MAY 13, 2026 Funding Year 2026 Wave 2 Is Out. What To Do If You Weren’t Funded. Funding windows MAY 13, 2026 FCC Confirms Full Funding for Every Eligible FY2026 E-rate Request Policy & FCC MAY 6, 2026 PIA Reviewers Asked for Your Documentation. Do You Have It? PIA & reviews MAY 6, 2026 FCC Wireline Competition Bureau Issues May 2026 Streamlined Appeal Decisions PIA & reviews MAY 6, 2026 Beyond the Bidding Portal: The FCC’s April Order Also Made Life Easier in Several Important Ways Policy & FCC MAY 6, 2026 The 2026 E-rate Applicant Survey is Open. Your Experience Belongs in this Conversation. Policy & FCC MAY 4, 2026 Wave 1 Funds More Than 60% of FY2026 Applicants — $1 Billion Committed Funding windows

April 2026

APR 30, 2026 FCC Approves Bidding Portal for Funding Year 2028. Your Funding Year 2027 Filings Are Unchanged. Policy & FCC APR 29, 2026 Before Thursday’s Vote, the E-rate Community Speaks With One Voice on the Bidding Portal Policy & FCC APR 29, 2026 I Won the Golden Tape Dispenser. Here’s Why It Mattered More Than I Expected. Commentary APR 29, 2026 Three Reasons E-rate Applicants Keep Coming Back to Funds For Learning PIA & reviews

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