President Obama’s 2013 goal to hook American students up to high-speed internet within five years looks more promising after Friday’s FFC approval to modernize the E-Rate program.
E-rate is the Universal Service Fund subsidy that goes to providing Internet access to schools and libraries. Friday’s vote approved a plan to spend an additional $2 billion to boost wireless Internet connectivity in U.S. schools and libraries over the next two years. Additionally, it plans to phase out subsidies for old technologies like pagers and dial-up phone service in order to subsidize broadband and wireless Internet connections.
Are your schools, school districts or libraries looking to fund telecommunications, telecommunications services, internet access, internal connections and maintenance? Check out the FCC’s E-Rate program here.
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