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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...

FCC Announces E-rate 2.0 Workshop

On April 14, 2014 the FCC announced they will be holding an E-rate Modernization Workshop on Tuesday May 6, 2014, to "discuss the challenge of delivering high-speed connectivity to and...

by Peter Kaplan

High-Speed Connections By 2019

On June 6, 2013, President Obama announced his ConnectED Initiative in which he called on the FCC to reform the E-rate program in order to ensure that 99% of our...

Funding Year 2014 Forms 470, Part 2: Broadband Speed Trends

As schools and libraries look to prepare generations for the 21st century technology climate, demand for high speed Internet Access as well as broadband telecommunications services is on the rise....

EducationSuperHighway Releases FY2014 Form 471 Item 21 Analysis

The EducationSuperHighway non-profit organization had asked school districts to use their Form 471 Item 21 tool for FY 2014 in order for them to gather data on what technologies schools...