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• Funding Status
• Updates on USAC’s E-Rate Productivity Center and Legacy System
  • IDER Approvals
• E-Rate Updates and Reminders
  • Upcoming E-Rate Dates
  • ESH State of the States Report
  • USAC Semi-Annual Audit Recovery Report
  • Tariffed-Based Increases to Aruba Pricing
• USAC News Brief Dated October 12 – Training, Webinars, and IDERs

• Funding Status
• Updates on USAC’s E-Rate Productivity Center and Legacy System
  • Using the New IDER Tool
  • Uploading Multiple RFP Documents into a Form 470
  • USAC Tools with Legacy URLs
• E-Rate Updates and Reminders
  • Upcoming E-Rate Dates
  • FCC Decision on Special Construction State Match Funding
• USAC News Brief Dated October 5 – Three October 29 Deadlines

• Funding Status – FY 2018
• Updates on USAC’s E-Rate Productivity Center and Legacy System
  • Administrative Window and New IDER Tool
• E-Rate Updates and Reminders
  • Upcoming E-Rate Dates
  • E-Rate Contracts and Tariff-Related Price Increases
  • FCC Decision Watch

Pursuant to our procedure for resolving requests for review, requests for waiver, and petitions for reconsideration of decisions related to actions taken by the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) that are consistent with precedent (collectively, Requests), the Wireline Competition Bureau (Bureau) grants, dismisses, or denies the following Requests.  The deadline for filing petitions for reconsideration or applications for review concerning the disposition of any of these Requests is 30 days from release of this Public Notice.

Request for Review and/or Waiver of a Decision of the Universal Service Administrator by Farmington Municipal School District 5.

• Funding Status – FY 2018
• Updates on USAC’s E-Rate Productivity Center and Legacy System
  • EPC School Entity Profile Updates
• E-Rate Updates and Reminders
  • Upcoming 2018 E-Rate Dates
• USAC News Brief Dated September 21 – New Invoicing Deadline Extension Tool

• Funding Status – FY 2018
• Updates on USAC’s E-Rate Productivity Center and Legacy System
  • Improving Postal Addresses for USAC Letters
• E-Rate Updates and Reminders
  • Upcoming 2018 E-Rate Dates
  • Updated USAC Training Sessions
  • 4Q18 Proposed Contribution Factor
• USAC News Brief Dated September 14 – Invoicing Reminders

In this Public Notice, the Office of Managing Director (OMD) announces that the proposed universal service contribution factor for the fourth quarter of 2018 will be 0.201 or 20.1 percent.

• Funding Status – FY 2018
• E-Rate Updates and Reminders
  • Upcoming 2018 E-Rate Dates
  • FCC Seeks Nominations for USAC Board
  • FBI E-Rate Enforcement Action
• USAC News Brief Dated September 7 – USAC Fall Training

Pursuant to section 54.703(c) of the Federal Communications Commission’s rules, the Wireline Competition Bureau (Bureau) seeks nominations for the following Board member positions on the Board of Directors of the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) listed below for a three-year term.

Re: Ex Parte Submission Regarding the Fall 2018 E-rate Training Dates. (Modernizing the E-rate Program for Schools and Libraries, WC Docket No. 13-184.)

• Funding Status – FY 2018
• Updates on USAC’s E-Rate Productivity Center and Legacy System
  • Counterintuitive Form 498 URL
• E-Rate Updates and Reminders
  • Upcoming 2018 E-Rate Dates
  • Public Comments on the Eligible Services List for FY 2019
  • FCC Decision Watch
• USAC News Brief Dated August 31 – FY 2017 Non-Recurring Service Delivery Deadlines

Pursuant to our procedure for resolving requests for review, requests for waiver, and petitions for reconsideration of decisions related to actions taken by the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) that are consistent with precedent (collectively, Requests), the Wireline Competition Bureau (Bureau) grants, dismisses, or denies the following Requests.  The deadline for filing petitions for reconsideration or applications for review concerning the disposition of any of these Requests is 30 days from release of this Public Notice.

• Funding Status – FY 2018
• Updates on USAC’s E-Rate Productivity Center and Legacy System
  • More Unexplained USAC Funding Decisions
• E-Rate Updates and Reminders
  • Upcoming 2018 E-Rate Dates
  • Additional USAC Guidance on Product Demos
  • FCC Formalizes $1.2 Billion Roll-Over for FY 2018
• USAC News Brief Dated August 24 – USAC Hiring

Remarks of FCC Chairman Ajit Pai at Rio Rancho Cyber Academy, hosted by New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez. Rio Rancho, New Mexico. August 20, 2018.

• Funding Status – FY 2018
• E-Rate Updates and Reminders
  • Upcoming 2018 E-Rate Dates
• USAC News Brief Dated August 17 – Federal Debt and Returning Funds
  • How Debt to the Federal Government Affects E-Rate Participants
  • Reminders on Returning Funds to USAC

In this notice, the Wireline Competition Bureau (Bureau) announces that there is sufficient funding available to fully meet the Universal Service Administrative Company’s (USAC) estimated demand for category one and category two requests for E-Rate supported services for funding year 2018.

• Funding Status – FY 2018
• Updates on USAC's E-Rate Productivity Center and Legacy System
  • USAC Plans E-Rate Cycle Dates
  • Form 486 “Early Filing” Warning
  • SPAC Status Search Tools
  • FCC Decision on a FY 2016 EPC Problem
• E-Rate Updates and Reminders
  • Upcoming 2018 E-Rate Dates
  • Most Common Application Denial Reasons
• USAC News Brief Dated August 10 – Form 470 FAQs