FCC Grants Sweetwater Appeal, Affirming Districts' Competitive Bidding Process
In one of its last actions of 2016, the FCC granted a $36 million appeal filed last May by the Sweetwater Consortium on behalf of more than 40 Tennessee school districts.
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The Importance of Correctly Filing Your FCC Appeal
The FCC's last streamlined appeal order in 2015 raised the procedural bar for schools, libraries and service providers filing appeals with the FCC.
In its December 2015 Public Notice, the FCC, for the first time, dismissed E-rate appeals that did not follow its procedural filing requirements, even though the requirements are not new. Previously, the only procedural requirements typically enforced for E-rate were the filing deadlines mandated by FCC rules. However, the Commission signaled it might start cracking down on filing requirements when it released a PN in 2014 reminding filers of its filing requirements.
