E-rate News

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...

FCC Grants Hickory Public Schools District’s Appeal

Over this past year the FCC has released over a dozen appeals which have been favorable to E-rate applicants. In this most recent case, the Hickory Public School District filed...

SLD Commits $42 Million in Wave 15 in Funding Year 2006

The SLD sent funding commitment decision letters to 585 applicants and 481 service providers committing $24.4 million. The commitments were all for priority one services and there still is no...

Congressional E-rate Update: House Passes “Deleting Online Predators Act”

Yesterday the House passed the "Deleting Online Predators Act of 2006 (H.R. 5319) by a large margin. The bill would require that "recipients of universal service support for schools and...

SLD Commits Another $18.2 Million in Funding Year 2006

The SLD sent Wave 14 2006 funding commitment decision letters to over 400 applicants and 400 service providers this week committing $18.2 million. These were all for priority one requests....

FCC Grants Wyoming State Department of Education Appeal

The Wyoming State Department of Education was denied E-rate dollars in 2004 and 2005 because the SLD determined that in their competitive bidding evaluation price was not the primary factor....

USAC Held Board Meeting; FCC Release Draft Eligible Services List

The USAC Schools and Libraries Committee held its quarterly board meeting today. The Board discussed the FCC's recent appeal decisions that have been favorable to the E-rate stakeholder community. Mel...

FCC Continues String of Favorable Appeals

This week the FCC continued its string of favorable decisions. The FCC seems to be asking USAC to try to do everything possible to fund eligible applications and invoices as...