^2/ See also In re Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service, Notice of Proposed Rulemaking and Order Establishing Joint Board, FCC 96-93, [[paragraph]] 120 (Mar. 8, 1996).

^3/ See Apple Computer at 7 n.9 ("Unlicensed devices . . . are not directly implicated by universal service policies since they are not a service provided by a telecommunications carrier.").

^4/ See, e.g., Alliance for Public Technology at 2-3; American Telemedicine Association at 3; Ameritech at 15; Apple Computer at 4-6; Association of America's Public Television Stations at 10-11; Governor of Guam at 14; Hispanic Information and Telecommunications Network at 4; International Society for Technology in Education at 12-14; Michigan Library Association at 12; NCTA at 17-18; National School Boards Association et al. at 17; NYNEX at 23; Time Warner at 18; Wavephore at 6; West Virginia University Telemedicine Program at 2; U.S. West at 22. But see Iowa Communications Network at 2 (urging the Commission to adopt rules that "discourage wireless technology as a delivery platform").

^5/ See, e.g., New York State Education Department at 11 (stating that only those companies electing to provide core services to schools and libraries should be required to provide advanced services); TCI at 19-20 (arguing that the Commission should not compel carriers to provide advanced services to schools and libraries because doing so would impose costs on the carriers that the universal service reimbursement scheme is ill-suited to cover); USTA at 12 (advising against special requirements for interconnection to individual customers).

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