FCC Denies School District Bids for Waiver of E-Rate Invoice Filing Deadline
The FCC Wireline Bureau denied requests by scores of school districts for waivers of an invoice filing deadline under the E-rate USF program. "The rules allow billed entities and service providers to seek and automatically receive a one-time extension of…
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the invoicing deadlines, provided that the extension request is made in advance of the initial invoicing deadline," said a bureau order listed in Tuesday's Daily Digest in docket 02-6. "None of the petitioners timely sought such an extension, and none present evidence that would justify waiving the requirement that invoice extension requests be filed before the invoicing deadline." Many petitioners cited "employee confusion, lack of understanding of the program rules, staff turnover, or no reason at all for not timely seeking an extension," it said, saying such reasons don't constitute "extraordinary circumstances."