Release
Date |
Description |
FCC/DA# |
| 11/21/08 |
Funding Year 2009
Eligible Services List for Schools and Libraries Universal Service
Mechanism: By this public notice, the Commission releases
the funding year 2009 Eligible Services List (ESL) for the schools
and libraries universal service support mechanism (commonly known
as E-rate) pursuant to section 54.522 of the Commission's rules. |
FCC-08-265
Public Notice: Word | Acrobat Eligible
Services List Word | Acrobat |
| 10/30/08 |
Acorn Public Library
District, Oak Forest, Illinois, et al.: In this
order, consistent with the Commission’s Bishop Perry Order and
the Bureau’s Academy of Academic Excellence Order, the
Telecommunications Access Policy Division grants 78 appeals of
decisions by USAC denying their funding requests because the applicants
failed to file their FCC Forms 471 before the filing window deadline. |
DA 08-2376
Word | Acrobat |
| 10/30/08 |
Adams County Public
Library, West Union, Ohio, et al.: In this order,
the Telecommunications Access Policy Division (Division), grants
7 appeals filed by petitioners seeking review of USAC decisions
reclassifying their services from Priority One services (telecommunications
services or Internet access) to Priority Two services (internal
connections and basic maintenance of internal connections) for
funding years 2000-2005. The Division finds that the petitioners
correctly classified their requested services as Priority One services
and remands the underlying applications to USAC for further action
consistent with this order. |
DA 08-2377
Word | Acrobat |
| 10/30/08 |
Addison Northeast
Supervisory Union, Bristol, Vermont, et al.: In
this order, the Telecommunications Access Policy Division (Division)
grants 8 appeals of decisions of USAC denying E-rate funding for
funding years 1999, 2005, and 2006. The applicants were denied
funding because USAC found that they sought telecommunications
service from providers that were not “telecommunications carriers.” The
petitioners state, however, that their providers were telecommunications
carriers, but that they had inadvertently entered the wrong SPINs
on their applications. The Division finds that the issue raised
here was recently addressed by the Bureau in the Brewster Academy
Order and remands the underlying applications to USAC for
further action consistent with the Brewster Academy Order. |
DA 08-2378
Word | Acrobat |
| 10/30/08 |
Alcona County Library,
Harrisville, Michigan, et al.: In this order, consistent
with the Bureau’s Alaska Gateway School District Order,
the Telecommunications Access Policy Division grants 34 appeals
of USAC decisions to reduce or deny funding from the E-rate program
for funding years 1999, 2001, 2004, 2005, and 2006, because USAC
found that the applicants failed to timely submit their FCC Forms
486. |
DA 08-2379
Word | Acrobat |
| 10/30/08 |
Approach Learning
and Assessment Centers, Santa Ana, California, et al.: In
this order, the Telecommunications Access Policy Division (Division)
grants 12 appeals of USAC decisions concerning applications for
discounts under the E-rate program. The Division reverses USAC’s
findings that the underlying applications violated the Commission’s
competitive bidding rules.
| DA 08-2380
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| 10/30/08 |
Archer Public Library,
Archer City, Texas, et al.: In this order, the
Telecommunications Access Policy Division (Division) grants 13
appeals of USAC decisions denying funding to the petitioners due
to certain clerical or ministerial errors in completing their FCC
Forms 471 or the associated Item 21 attachments under the E-rate
program. The Division finds that the issues raised here are similar
to those addressed by the Commission in the Bishop Perry Order.
To the extent necessary, the Division waives section 54.504(c)
of its rules to allow the petitioners to amend their original applications
and associated Item 21 attachments submitted to USAC.
| DA 08-2381
Word | Acrobat |
| 10/30/08 |
Barberton City School
District, Barberton, Ohio, et al.: In this order,
the Telecommunications Access Policy Division (Division) grants
18 requests by schools and libraries for review of USAC decisions
denying applications or rescinding funding for discounted services
for funding years 2005 and 2006 on the grounds that they violated
the Commission’s requirement that a legally binding agreement be
in place when their FCC Form 471 application was submitted. The
Division finds that the issues raised in 3 appeals were recently
addressed by the Commission in the Adams County Order.
The Division further finds that the appeals of 11 petitioners should
be granted on the merits and remands the underlying applications
to USAC for further action consistent with this order.
| DA 08-2382
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| 10/30/08 |
Bay Shore Union Free
School District, Bay Shore, New York, et al.: In
this order, the Telecommunications Access Policy Division (Division)
18 requests for review of USAC decisions denying petitioners funding
during funding years 2001-2006 on the grounds that their service
providers were not registered as telecommunications carriers at
the time they filed their applications, or because the service
provider identification numbers (SPINs) of the service providers
seeking payment did not match the SPINs in the petitioners’ funding
requests. The Division finds that USAC’s denials may have been
based on inadvertent errors or misunderstandings that, if corrected,
would have made the petitioners eligible for funding under the
E-rate program.
| DA 08-2383
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| 10/30/08 |
Broaddus Independent
School District, Broaddus, Texas, et al.: In this
order, the Telecommunications Access Policy Division (Division)
grants 4 appeals of USAC decisions denying applications for discounted
services under the E-rate program during funding years 2000-2003
after changing the service category of the applicants’ funding
requests, because their service providers were not telecommunications
carriers, as required by program rules. The Division finds that
if the petitioners had been given the opportunity to explain the
reason for their service category selection, USAC may not have
reclassified their funding requests and their requests for discounts
may have been funded.
| DA 08-2384
Word | Acrobat |
| 10/30/08 |
Canon-McMillan School
District, Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, et al.: In
this order, the Telecommunications Access Policy Division (Division)
grants 20 appeals of USAC decisions denying funding because the
applicants’ invoice forms were untimely filed or not received by
USAC. The Division directs USAC to process the applicants’ invoice
forms that were deemed untimely filed or not received by USAC.
| DA 08-2385
Word | Acrobat |
| 10/30/08 |
Chester Upland School
District, Chester, Pennsylvania, et al.: In this
order, the Telecommunications Access Policy Division (Division)
grants 4 appeals that were denied by USAC because the applicants
failed to demonstrate that they met the necessary resources requirement
for applications in funding years 2002, 2004, and 2006. Consistent
with the Commission’s Academy of Excellence Order, the
Division grants the petitioners an opportunity to demonstrate that
they met the requirement.
| DA 08-2386
Word | Acrobat |
| 10/30/08 |
Colegio Nuestra Senora
del Carmen, Hatillo, Puerto Rico, et al.: In this
order, the Telecommunications Access Policy Division (Division)
grants 6 appeals of USAC decisions denying funding on the ground
that the petitioners violated the Commission’s competitive bidding
rules. USAC found that the petitioners failed to use price as the
primary factor in their vendor selection processes or that the
selected service providers improperly participated in the competitive
bidding processes. The Division finds that the petitioners did
not violate the Commission’s competitive bidding requirements.
| DA 08-2387
Word | Acrobat |
| 10/30/08 |
Consorcio de Escuelas
y Bibliotecas de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico, and Hispanic
Information and Telecommunications Network, Brooklyn, New York: In
this order, the Telecommunications Access Policy Division (Division)
grants 2 appeals filed by Consorcio de Escuelas y Bibliotecas de
Puerto Rico (Consorcio) and its service provider, Hispanic Information
and Telecommunications Network, Inc. (HITN), of USAC decisions
denying funding under the E-rate program for funding year 2001.
USAC denied funding on the grounds that Consorcio improperly listed
an employee of its service provider, HITN, as a contact person
on its FCC Forms 470. The Division finds that special circumstances
exist to justify a waiver of the Commission’s competitive bidding
rules.
| DA 08-2388
Word | Acrobat |
| 10/30/08 |
District of Columbia
Public Schools, Washington, D.C.: In this order, the Telecommunications
Access Policy Division (Division) grants 2 requests for review
filed by Achieve Telecom Network of MA, LLC (Achieve Telecom) and
E-Rate Elite Services, Inc. (E-Rate Elite) (collectively Petitioners)
on behalf of the applicant, District of Columbia Public Schools
(DCPS). Petitioners seek review of a USAC decision denying DCPS’s
funding year 2005 applications for discounted services on the ground
that the applicant failed to certify that E-rate Elite was authorized
by DCPS to prepare the responses to USAC’s Selective Review Information
Request (SRIR). The Division finds that, prior to USAC denying
DCPS’s applications for funding under the E-rate program, USAC
should have contacted DCPS and given it the opportunity to provide
the SRIR certification and any necessary information to complete
the review after failing to obtain the information from E-Rate
Elite, the applicant’s consultant.
| DA 08-2389
Word | Acrobat |
| 10/30/08 |
Delano Joint Union
High School District, Delano, California, and Cityroots, Inc.,
Bakersfield, California: In this order, the Telecommunications
Access Policy Division (Division) grants 2 appeals filed by Delano
and Cityroots, one of Delano’s selected service providers, of USAC
decisions seeking to recover funding already disbursed to Delano
and its service providers on the ground that there was improper
service provider involvement in the competitive bidding process.
The Division finds that the record demonstrates that the Commission’s
competitive bidding requirements were not violated and directs
USAC to discontinue recovery actions against Delano and its service
providers and, to the extent any funds have already been recovered
from the parties, to refund the parties.
| DA 08-2362
Word | Acrobat |
| 10/30/08 |
Excellence Charter
School of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York, et al.: In
this order, the Telecommunications Access Policy Division (Division)
grants 21 appeals of applicants whose funding requests for funding
years 2002 and 2004-2008 were denied by USAC after they missed
a 7-day deadline for filing information USAC requested. The Division
grants and remands the underlying applications consistent with
the Commission’s Alpaugh Order.
| DA 08-2363
Word | Acrobat |
| 10/30/08 |
Grand Rapids Public
Schools, Grand Rapids, Michigan: In this order, the Telecommunications
Access Policy Division (Division) grants a request by Grand Rapids
seeking review of a USAC decision that denied funding for discounted
services on the ground that Grand Rapids’s funding year 2006 application
violated the Commission’s competitive bidding requirements. The
Division finds that Grand Rapids should be allowed to correct the
error on its FCC Form 471 that served as the basis for USAC’s denial
of funding and remands the underlying application to USAC for further
action.
| DA 08-2364
Word | Acrobat |
| 10/30/08 |
Harvey Public Library
District, Harvey, Illinois: In this order, the Telecommunications
Access Policy Division (Division) grants the request by Harvey
appealing a USAC decision that denied funding for funding year
2002. The Division finds that special circumstances exist to justify
a waiver of USAC’s procedures and remands the appeal to USAC to
reinstate the funding commitment.
| DA 08-2365
Word | Acrobat |
| 10/30/08 |
Hillsboro Independent
School District, Richmond, Texas: In this order, the Telecommunications
Access Policy Division (Division) grants a request for review of
a USAC decision denying funding to Hillsboro for funding year 2006
on the grounds that Hillsboro: (1) did not have valid contracts
in place prior to filing its FCC Form 471; (2) requested telecommunications
services from a service provider that was not a telecommunications
carrier; and (3) failed to notify bidders that a request for proposal
was issued. The Division finds that Hillsboro had valid contracts
in place when it filed its FCC Form 471, and it properly posted
and competitively bid for its Internet access service, consistent
with the Commission’s competitive bidding rules.
| DA 08-2366
Word | Acrobat |
| 10/30/08 |
Hispanic Information
and Telecommunications Network, Inc., New York, New York: In
this order, the Telecommunications Access Policy Division (Division)
grants an appeal of a USAC decision seeking recovery of funding
already disbursed to the Hispanic Information and Telecommunications
Network for discounted services provided to the applicant, Biblioteca
Residencial Aguadilla (Aguadilla), under the E-rate program. The
Division remands this appeal to USAC to give Aguadilla an additional
opportunity to provide evidence that it did not violate the E-rate
program rules in any of the three ways identified in the audit
report relied upon by USAC.
| DA 08-2367
Word | Acrobat |
| 10/30/08 |
Liberal Unified School
District, Liberal, Kansas: In this order, the Telecommunications
Access Policy Division (Division) grants Liberal USD’s appeal of
a USAC decision denying E-rate funding for its funding year 2003
application after finding that Liberal USD violated the Commission’s
competitive bidding requirements. The Division grants the appeal,
finding that, based on the record, no competitive bidding violation
occurred, and remands the matter to USAC for appropriate action.
| DA 08-2368
Word | Acrobat |
| 10/30/08 |
Midwestern Intermediate
Unit IV, Grove City, Pennsylvania: In this letter, consistent
with the Bureau’s Advanced Education Services Order, the
Telecommunications Access Policy Division (Division) grants 2 appeals
of USAC decisions, which denied E-rate applications on the ground
that the consortium failed to submit letters of agency signed and
dated prior to the certification of the consortium’s FCC Forms
471.
| DA 08-2369
Word | Acrobat |
| 10/30/08 |
New Haven Free Public
Library, New Haven, Connecticut: In this order, the Telecommunications
Access Policy Division (Division) grants an appeal of a USAC decision
rescinding funding disbursed to the New Haven for discounted services.
USAC found that New Haven’s failure to produce requested invoice
documentation during an internal audit warranted the recovery of
the disbursed commitment. The Division finds good cause exists
to grant and remand the appeal to USAC and directs USAC to suspend
its recovery of the disbursed E-rate funding in accordance with
the terms expressed herein and review its audit findings in light
of the invoices presented.
| DA 08-2370
Word | Acrobat |
| 10/30/08 |
Radford City Schools,
Radford, Virginia: In this order, the Telecommunications
Access Policy Division (Division) grants Radford’s request for
review of a USAC decision denying funding to Radford for funding
year 2001 on the grounds that Radford did not submit its FCC Form
470 signed certification page prior to filing its FCC Form 471.
Consistent with precedent, the Division waives the requirement
that the FCC Form 470 be certified prior to the filing of FCC Form
471, finding that Radford made a procedural error in not submitting
the certification. The Division also notes that the funding requests
that were denied were part of a Virginia statewide master contract
for which Virginia filed certified FCC Forms 470, either as existing
contracts or when issuing requests for proposals for new services.
| DA 08-2371
Word | Acrobat |
| 10/30/08 |
Tekoa Academy of Accelerated
Studies, Port Arthur, Texas: In this order, consistent with
the Division’s Great Rivers Order, the Telecommunications
Access Policy Division (Division) grants a waiver of the deadline
for non-recurring services implementation.
| DA 08-2372
Word | Acrobat |
| 10/30/08 |
Trenton City Schools,
Brooklyn, New York: In this order, the Telecommunications
Access Policy Division (Division) grants Trenton's appeal of a
USAC decision reducing the funding sought by Trenton in funding
year 2001 on the grounds that Trenton sought E-rate discounts for
three entities ineligible for E-rate support. Based on the record,
it appears that this matter can be resolved through further discussions
between USAC staff and Trenton. The Division therefore directs
USAC to contact Trenton to resolve the inconsistencies in the submitted
information and review this matter in light of any additional information
provided by Trenton.
| DA 08-2373
Word | Acrobat |
| 10/30/08 |
United Talmudical
Academy, Brooklyn, New York: In this order, the Telecommunications
Access Policy Division (Division) grants United Talmudical Academy’s
(UTA) appeal of a USAC decision seeking to recover funding already
disbursed to UTA in funding year 1999 on the grounds that UTA did
not pay the non-discounted portion of the E-rate services it purchased.
Based on the record, it appears that this matter can be resolved
through USAC’s review of additional documentation UTA provided
to the Commission in its appeal, which it had not previously provided
to USAC. The Division therefore directs USAC to review this matter
in light of this additional information.
| DA 08-2374
Word | Acrobat |
| 10/30/08 |
West Branch-Rose City
Area Schools, West Branch, Michigan: In this order, the
Telecommunications Access Policy Division (Division) grants an
appeal filed by West Branch of a USAC decision denying West Branch’s
request for reimbursement of the cost of services rendered under
the E-rate program for funding year 2002. USAC denied West Branch’s
request for reimbursement because the relevant invoice indicated
that West Branch had paid service providers that were not listed
on its funding commitment decision letter. Based on the record,
it appears that this matter can be resolved through USAC’s review
of the documentation West Branch provided to the Commission in
its appeal.
| DA 08-2375
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| 9/17/08 |
State Of Iowa: The
Wireline Competition Bureau seeks comment on a petition by the State
of Iowa. Iowa seeks a waiver of the E-rate rules similar to the relief
that was granted for Hurricane Katrina victims on behalf of victims
of storms and floods in Iowa this past spring and early summer. Comments
are due October 1, 2008, and reply comments are due October 8, 2008.
| DA 08-2102
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| 9/12/08 |
Notice of Inquiry Regarding USF Administration and Oversight: In this Notice of Inquiry, the Commission seeks comment on ways to further strengthen management, administration, and oversight of the universal service fund (USF), how to define more clearly the goals of the USF, and to identify any additional quantifiable performance measures that may be necessary or desirable. Comments are due November 13, 2008, and reply comments are due December 15, 2008.
| FCC-08-189
Word | Acrobat |
| 8/20/08 |
Comment Cycle for
Eligible Services List: The Wireline Competition Bureau
announces that the summary for the Eligible Services List NPRM
has been published in the Federal Register. Comments are due September
18, 2008, and reply comments are due October 3, 2008.
| DA 08-1930
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| 8/14/08 |
Inter-Tel, Inc. Reconsideration
Order: The Wireline Competition Bureau grants a petition
for reconsideration filed by Inter-Tel, Inc. (Inter-Tel), seeking
partial reconsideration of the Approach Learning Order. In that
order, the Bureau addressed several appeals of USAC decisions relating
to alleged violations of the Commission's competitive bidding requirements
under the E-rate program. On reconsideration, the Bureau finds
that the relief extended in the Approach Learning Order applies
to any work that Inter-Tel had not yet performed for funding request
numbers 764333, 764346, 764341, 764340.
| DA 08-1898
Word | Acrobat |
| 8/12/08 |
Savannah R-III School
District, Savannah, Missouri: In this order, the Telecommunications
Access Policy Division grants a request for review filed by Savannah
R-III School District (Savannah) for E-rate Funding Years 2003,
2004 and 2005, finding that Savannah demonstrated that on-premise
satellite equipment was properly classified as Internet access
for purposes of E-rate funding.
| DA 08-1890
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| 7/31/08 |
Funding Year 2009
Eligible Services List Public Notice: The Commission seeks
comment on USAC's proposed E-rate eligible services list for funding
year 2009. Comments are due August 14, 2008, and reply comments
are due August 21, 2008.
| FCC 08-180
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| 7/31/08 |
E-Rate Eligible Services
Notice of Proposed Rulemaking: The Commission seeks comment
on changes to the eligible services list for E-rate universal service
support. Comments on the notice of proposed rulemaking will be
due 30 days after its publication in the Federal Register, and
reply comments will be due 45 days after publication in the Federal
Register.
| FCC 08-173
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| 6/23/08 |
E-rate Rollover Public
Notice: The Wireline Competition Bureau announces that $600
million in unused funds will be carried forward from Funding Years
2002, 2003, and 2004 to increase the disbursements to schools and
libraries in Funding Year 2008 in excess of the annual cap.
| DA 08-1470
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| 6/13/08 |
Arkansas Department
of Information Systems (Arkansas DIS), Little Rock, Arkansas, et
al.: The Telecommunications Access Policy Division grants
two requests for review filed by Arkansas DIS, seeking review of
decisions by USAC denying E-rate funding for Funding Years 2004
and 2005 for failure to timely submit FCC Forms 471, 486 or 472.
| DA 08-1418
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| 4/14/08 |
Mineola Union Free
School District, Mineola, New York: Wireline Competition
Bureau directs USAC to allow Mineola to submit two funding requests
and consider them with its FY 2008 application. In FY 2008, Mineola
timely submitted a paper copy of its FCC Form 471 to USAC. Upon
realizing that it had inadvertently failed to include two of its
three funding requests as part of its FY 2008 application, Mineola
asked USAC if it could submit the missing two pages, including
the two funding requests, to be included with its application as
submitted to USAC. Based on the information provided to us by USAC
staff, we find that this was a clerical error that can be corrected,
pursuant to Commission precedent.
| DA 08-872
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| 4/14/08 |
SEND Technologies,
L.L.C./Nexus Systems, Inc.: Bureau seeks comment on SEND’s
petition for partial reconsideration of the Bureau’s Caldwell Parish
Order, which, among other things, denied SEND’s Request for Review
of a decision by USAC related to one applicant, Jackson Parish
School District, denying it discounted services for Funding Years
2003 and 2004 under the E-rate program.
| DA 08-859
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| 4/10/08 |
Schools and Libraries, Letter Approving Funding Year 2008 PIA Procedures: In this letter, the Wireline Competition Bureau (Bureau) notifies the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) that the Bureau has approved the Schools and Libraries Funding Year 2008 Program Integrity Assurance FCC Form 471 Review procedures.
| DA 08-853
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| 3/11/08 |
Berrien County Intermediate
School District, Berrien Springs, Michigan: In this letter,
the Bureau directs USAC to review Berrien’s appeal in light of
information provided to the Commission on appeal indicating that
there was an inadvertent miscommunication regarding the amount
of funding requested by Berrien.
| DA 08-546
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| 2/22/08 |
Caldwell Parish School
District, et al., Columbia, Louisiana: In this Order, the
Bureau grants in part and denies in part two Requests for Review
filed by SEND Techonologies, L.L.C./Nexus Systems, Inc. seeking
review of decisions by USAC denying E-rate funding for Funding
Years 2002-2004 for improper service provider involvement in the
applicants’ competitive bidding processes.
| DA 08-449
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| 2/8/08 |
Franklin-McKinley
School District, San Jose, California: In this Order, consistent
with the Commission's Adams County Order, the Bureau grants
an appeal filed by Franklin-McKinley for review of a decision by
USAC that rescinded funding already committed for Funding Year
2005 finding that Franklin-Mckinley had a legally binding Agreement
with its service provider.
| DA 08-319
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