FCC Limits E-rate Appeal Options

In its first order of 2017, the FCC denied an application for review filed by Net56, after both USAC and the Wireline Competition Bureau found that Net56’s appeal had been untimely filed because it was received more than 60 days after receipt of commitment adjustment decision letters (COMADs) from USAC.

FCC Cracks Down on USF Violations


As his tenure as FCC head winds down, Chairman Tom Wheeler’s enforcement priority appears to be universal service.  Over the past five weeks, the Commission has issued four decisions finding apparent violations of the USF rules, and has proposed heavy penalties in the Commission’s first-ever enforcement actions involving the rural health care program and the high-cost program.

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