A 22-count indictment was filed against six companies and five individuals on charges of fraud, collusion, aiding and abetting, and conspiracy in connection with E-Rate projects at schools in seven states - Arkansas, California, Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Wisconsin.
Byline: JEFFREY SILVA AND HEATHER FORSGREN WEAVER The Federal Communications Commission clarified E-rate rules to ensure that wireless solutions are given as much access to the program as wireline solutions. But the wireless industry lost out Byline: JEFFREY...
Byline: HEATHER FORSGREN WEAVER Even as government tries to figure out how to alter universal service funding to make it viable, the part of the fund that pays to connect schools and libraries to the Internet is under its own scrutiny. ...
Since 1998, the Federal Communications Commission's FCC E-rate program has committed more than $13 billion to help schools and libraries acquire Internet and telecommunications services. As steward of the program, FCC must ensure that participants use E-rate funds appropriately and that there is managerial and financial accountability surrounding the funds....
Since 1998, the Federal Communications Commission's FCC E-rate program has committed more than $13 billion to help schools and libraries acquire Internet and telecommunications services. Recently, allegations of fraud, waste, and abuse by some E-rate program participants have come to light. As steward of the program, FCC must ensure that...
Since 1998, the Federal Communications Commission's FCC E-rate program has committed more than $13 billion to help schools and libraries acquire Internet and telecommunications services. Recently, however, allegations of fraud, waste, and abuse by some E-rate program participants have come to light. The paper reviews the effect of the current...
AUSTIN, Texas -- TippingPoint, a division of 3Com and the leader in intrusion prevention, today announced that K-12 schools and libraries can now purchase TippingPoint Intrusion Prevention Systems IPS at a discount between 20 - 90 percent using federal E-rate funds. The E-rate program - the Schools and Libraries Universal...
The Urban Institute released a study to coincide with the start of the school year that shows that subsidies for connecting schools and libraries to the Internet--the E-rate--seem to be working. Public schools received 84 percent of the E-rate ... The Urban Institute released...
AUSTIN, Texas -- Mirage Networks, developers of award-winning Network Access Control NAC technology, today announced its CounterPoint network security appliances, serving as interior network firewalls, have been approved by E-Rate for discounted purchase by libraries, schools and school districts.
The Federal Communications Commission's inspector general last week warned lawmakers that a $2.25 billion government program subsidizing wireline and wireless Internet links for schools and libraries remains highly vulnerable to fraud. " The Federal Communications Commission's inspector general...
The Education Rate (E-Rate) is the result of a regulatory decision made by the Federal Communications Commission FCC on May 7, 1997 to implement the Telecommunications Act of 1996. The FCC's decision meant that beginning January 1998, K-12 schools, The Education Rate (E-Rate) is the result...
HILLSIDE, N.J. -- Company Exhibiting Variety of Education Related Video Communication Technologies Now Available at Federally Funded Discounted Rates; Demonstrating Use and Benefits of Video Conferencing in Education Via Live Distance Learning Seminar Series
Byline: HEATHER FORSGREN WEAVER, JEFFREY SILVA Minutes literally before the Senate adjourned for the year, it managed to pass a troika of important wireless bills-spectrum relocation, enhanced 911 upgrades and universal service. " ...
BELLEVUE, Wash.--BUSINESS WIRE--July 27, 1998--In a swift and unanimous vote on Friday, the U.S. Senate passed the fiscal 1999 appropriations bill for the departments of Commerce, State and Justice, with a provision that requires schools and libraries, receiving federal discounts on Internet access, to install filtering software on their computers...
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