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Your Vote Counts: Results of Funds For Learning‚Äôs 2012 Applicant Survey

Join Funds For Learning, the nation's largest E-rate compliance firm, for a free E-rate training session entitled Your Vote Counts: Results of Funds For Learning's 2012 Applicant Survey. The event...

USAC Opens Registration for Applicant Trainings

USAC has opened registration for this year's applicant training sessions. Agendas for the sessions will be released later this summer.

FCC Waives Form 471 Deadline for 56 Applicants

On May 22, 2012, the Federal Communications Commission granted 56 appeals for applicants who missed the Form 471 filing deadline. The decision is tied to requests in Funding Year 2005,...

by Nick Shipley

The Halves and Halves Not

Sometimes "half" is a good thing - half price, half the calories, half the time, a glass half full optimism. However, when it comes to bridging the digital divide and...

FCC Issues Tech Plan Appeal Decision

On May 17th, 2012, the Federal Communications Commission released an appeal decision granting the appeals of 15 applicants. In each case, USAC originally ruled that the applicant had violated technology...

Funding Cap Increased for FY2012

The FCC's Wireline Competition Bureau has announced that the inflation-based funding cap for Funding Year 2012 will be $2.338 billion, an increase of 2.1% from FY2011.

FCC Initiates Debarment Proceedings

On May 9, 2012, the Federal Communications Commission notified Jonathan Slaughter, owner and president of E-rate Consulting Services (ECS), LLC, that he is suspended from participating in the E-rate program...

US Senate Confirms FCC Commissioners

On Monday, March 7, 2012, the United States Senate confirmed Ajit Pai and Jessica Rosenworcel to the Federal Communications Commission by unanimous consent. Rosenworcel will fill former Commissioner Michael Copps'...