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The FCC Wireline Bureau carried forward $900 million in unused E-...

The FCC Wireline Bureau carried forward $900 million in unused E-rate money to increase payouts to schools and libraries for funding year 2009, the bureau said last week. The Universal Service Administrative Co. had projected $1 billion in unused…

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money. But, the bureau said, it reserved $100 million for use in 2010. “Absent a rollover of E-rate funds from prior funding years, the annual cap will preclude USAC from fully funding Priority Two requests in funding year 2009 at even the highest discount level, 90 percent.” A similar deficit probably will be booked in 2010, it said.