On May 11, 2022, speaking to The National Coalition for Technology in Education & Training Council (NCTET), FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced a proposal that would allow the use of E-Rate funding for Wi-Fi on school buses to help close the Homework Gap. The proposed declaratory Ruling clarifies that use of Wi-Fi, or similar access [...]
On September 16, 2020, the Federal Communications Commission just announced the opening of a second funding year 2020 filing window to allow schools to request additional E-Rate funding specifically to address increased on-campus bandwidth needs. During this second filing window, schools will be able to purchase additional bandwidth for this academic year to address needs [...]
Citing disruptions caused by COVID-19, the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) Wireline Competition Bureau (WCB) released an Order today directing USAC to extend the deadline for E-Rate applicants to submit their Funding Year (FY) 2020 Form 471 applications by an additional 35 days. E-Rate applicants will now have until Wednesday, April 29, 2020 at 11:59 [...]
On December 3, 2019 the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released a long-anticipated Report and Order making significant changes to the Category Two Budget methodology that has been in place for the past five years. With this Report and Order the FCC permanently adopts the Category Two Budget approach, originally adopted for funding year 2015, [...]
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