The FCC Wireline Bureau granted 46 E-Rate appeals filed by...
The FCC Wireline Bureau granted 46 E-Rate appeals filed by school districts and vendors from Animas, N.M., to Zeeland, N.D., according to an order released Friday. The Universal Service Administrative Co. had either denied or rescinded E-Rate fundings for the…
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districts. “Petitioners offer a number of explanations for why they did or did not have a legally binding agreement in place when their FCC Form 471 application was submitted,” Wireline Bureau Deputy Chief for Telecom Access Policy Gina Spade wrote in the order (http://xrl.us/bmmqz5). “Based on our review of the record, the mistakes made by these petitioners do not warrant the complete rejection of these petitioners’ applications for E-rate funding.” The order, dated Thursday, waives section 54.505(c) of the FCC’s reporting rules for 40 of the appellants; it grants another seven “appeals on the merits because these petitioners demonstrated that they had placed contracts that complied with the Commission’s rules.”