Consider Off-Campus E-rate, Reevaluate USF Funding, AT&T Asks
Schools should have more flexibility in how they use E-rate funds because most students are relying on remote learning during the pandemic, blogged Ed Gillespie, AT&T senior executive vice president-external and legislative affairs. The FCC should "evaluate whether the current…
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E-rate structure is the right one for today's world" and work with the Education Department to transform the program, Gillespie wrote Tuesday. The funding mechanism for USF programs is "fundamentally broken and unsustainable," he said, and should be reevaluated.