FCC Increases E-Rate Funding to $3.99 Billion in Inflation Adjustment
The FCC E-rate funding cap was raised to $3.99 billion for the 2017 funding year beginning July 1 to account for inflation, said a Wireline Bureau public notice Monday in docket 02-6. It was a 1.3 percent increase from the…
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current $3.94 cap, the PN said. It noted the commission in 2010 began to index the E-rate USF budget for inflation to ensure the USF subsidy program keeps pace with school and library broadband/telecom needs.