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by Sean Lock
February 15, 2011

Dear FCC: Reject the Recommended Discount Threshold

On January 24, 2011, USAC recommended that the final discount threshold for Funding Year 2010 be set at 81%. The SLD cited their belief that they will ultimately not have...
Discount Rates FCC Funding Availability Funds For Learning FY 2010 Rollover Funding
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by Peter Kaplan
January 12, 2011

Dear USAC: Please reconsider

How would you like it if you bought a new SONY television and after getting it home and setting it up, you realize that your remote control doesn't work? Upon...
Applicant Dates and Deadlines FCC Form 470 Forms Procurement Public Notice Service Provider USAC
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by Stephen Sharp
January 5, 2011

E-rate 2010: A Year in Review

From the shock wave that was the FCC Sixth Report and Order, to the introduction of electronic USAC payments, the E-rate program saw some substantial changes in 2010. E-rate stakeholders...
Applicant Application Process Dates and Deadlines FCC Funds For Learning FY 2010 How to Apply Payment Quality Assurance (PQA) Report and Order USAC
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by Nicholas Shipley
January 3, 2011

When Life Imitates Art: Audit Pitfalls

You haphazardly toss the cardboard lid in the general direction of the file box you had spent the last hour searching. Hundreds of documents, thousands of pages, you continue to...
Applicant Application Process Audits How to Apply Procurement Service Provider
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by Brian Stephens
December 6, 2010

The Real World…or Equivalent

You've seen this show on MTV, The Real World, right? They take a handful of overly attractive twentysomethings, put them up in a designer home in the hippest part of...
Applicant Application Process Form 470 Procurement Service Provider USAC
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by Verlyne Jolley
November 16, 2010

Streamline?

With all the efforts to streamline the process for applicants, the FCC could have been more thoughtful with their timing on when the Form and subsequent changes would take place.
Dates and Deadlines FCC Form 470 Form 471 Forms Program Integrity Assurance (PIA) USAC
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by Nicholas Shipley
November 11, 2010

Forms 471: Waiting Until the Day After Tomorrow

Oscar Wilde once said, "I never put off till tomorrow what I can do the day after." It appears that many E-rate applicants share this philosophy. A Funds For Learning...
Application Process Dates and Deadlines Filing Window Form 471 Forms
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by Verlyne Jolley
November 4, 2010

Appearances are Everything

One has to ask with the recent shift and focus of the USAC 2010 Fall Applicant Training sessions how often schools are bribed by service providers with the promise of...
Applicant Application Process Funds For Learning Procurement Service Provider Training USAC
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