>Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 16:56:19 -0700 >Reply-To: Telecom Regulation & the Internet <CYBERTELECOM-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM> >From: Robert Cannon <cannon@DC.NET> >Subject: Universal Service Draft Forms - Comments >To: CYBERTELECOM-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM > >On October 10, 1997, the FCC held a Workshop on School & Library >Universal Service Forms. A couple of quick points. > >The draft forms are available at http://www.fcc.gov/formpage.html#470. >They are FCC Form 470 and FCC Form 471. These drafts are not complete. >The FCC is still taking comments. Those comments on the forms should be >received no later than Tuesday November 14. Comments can be sent to >Irene Flannery iflanner@fcc.gov or Mark Nadel mnadel@fcc.gov. > >The School & Library Corporation makes it sound like it will have its >web page up mid November. This means that applications for funds will >first be able to be filed, and posted for competitive bidding by service >providers, at about that time. > >For an explanation of how an Internet Service Provider can tap into the >Universal Service Fund, see An Internet Service Provider's Guide to the >Universal Service $2.25 Billion Fund For Schools and Libraries >http://www.cais.net/cannon/usf/usfguide.htm > >-Robert Cannon > >Cybertelecom-l http://www.cais.net/cannon/ >~~~The Internet & US Telecommunications Regulation >~~~(The Internet and the Communications Act >~~~as amended [Title 47, United States Code]) >