The FCC should direct the Universal Service Administrative...
The FCC should direct the Universal Service Administrative Co. to either grant or deny the E-rate funding applications of the New York City Department of Education, tw telecom said in a petition filed Wednesday (http://bit.ly/11nF0ai). The department is a tw…
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telecom customer. “NYC DOE has not received a USAC funding commitment decision awarding or denying its applications for E-Rate funding” for tw telecom’s 1 Gbps broadband services for the 2011-2012 and 2012-2013 funding years, the petition said. “Under the contract between the parties, tw telecom cannot recover the unpaid discounted portion of the cost of services provided directly from NYC DOE unless and until USAC issues a written decision denying or reducing the requested funding. In the meantime, tw telecom must incur the vast majority of the cost of providing broadband to the largest public school system in the country.” USAC’s failure to timely review the applications “undermines the Commission’s promotion of broadband Internet access service to schools” by “discouraging” tw telecom and others from participating in the E-rate program, tw telecom said. “More generally, USAC’s failure to make a decision is simply bad government.”