18 E-rate Applicants Get FCC Deadline Waiver Due to System Error
The FCC adjusted deadlines for funding years 2016 and 2017 for 18 E-rate applicants affected by a system error. Universal Service Administrative Co. learned in March 2018 its E-Rate Productivity Center gave an incorrect service implementation deadline to some "special…
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construction" applicants, which then caused USAC's system to assign an incorrect invoicing deadline, said a Wireline Bureau order in Thursday's Daily Digest and docket 02-6. USAC corrected the error last March to avoid further problems. "To prevent the affected applicants from the hardship of having their funding subject to recovery or their invoices rejected by USAC as a result of their reliance on these incorrect deadlines, on our own motion, we grant a limited, one-time waiver of the Commission’s special construction service implementation deadline," the order said. The applicants include the Los Angeles Unified School District and the Archdiocese of New Orleans.