This document discusses Verizon's process for applying for E-Rate funding from the FCC's Universal Service Program. It provides an overview of the E-Rate application process where schools submit requests for services and service providers like Verizon bid to provide those services at a discount rate. The document outlines Verizon's current and planned future processes for tracking E-Rate funding eligibility and history for customers within its systems to ensure compliance with FCC rules and allow customers to view their funding status and history. It also provides E-Rate program funding statistics from 2010 to 2012 and details upcoming changes to application programming interfaces to integrate E-Rate data from the administering body, USAC.

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E-Rate
CAMIT ID: 830264
ER August 2014

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CAMIT 830264 E-Rate
Project name PROJECT TITLE
CAM # 830264
CAM James Pesichitti
Business Sponsor Jenny Fratus, Rosa Madrid, Viola Baboola, Feierabend -
Legal
Release Release 14.6
COPS Manager Perry Marchesi(CST) Asya Klats(DVS)
SME/Project Manager Paul Manzo
CST LTA/Overall LTA Richard Sheffield(CST – LTA) Huodong Li(DVS – LTA)
CST LOE 55 days
Major Impact List of Impacted Applications include (but are not limited to):
VISION – DVS.
POS
ACSS
ECPD
NPV 2010: 96,000,000
2011: 118,000,000
2012: 141,000,000
*Figures only include actual committed dollars by USAC
(administrator for FCC) to Verizon Wireless.

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Overview
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Apply for eligibility for funding.
The universal service Schools and Libraries Program, commonly known as the E-rate Program, helps ensure
that schools and libraries can obtain telecommunications and Internet access at affordable rates. Yes that is
the Universal service fee tax we see on our phone bills.
The Schools or library’s then submit Form 470 Description of Services Requested and Certification form.

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Overview
Service providers review the Form 470’s and make bids
to provide the service.
The school or library then apply for the discounts Form 471: Discounts for support depend on the level of poverty
and the urban/rural status of the population served and range from 20 percent to 90 percent of the costs of eligible
services. The total amount committed for the discount program in 2013 was $2,802,613,037.61.
Priority 1
•Telecommunications Services
•Telecommunications
•Internet Access
Priority 2
•Internal Connections (eligible products)
•Basic Maintenance of Internal Connections (repair and upkeep of eligible products)

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Current Vision Process
Currently in customer view if you click on the pencil to the right of Group ID: you get this pop up if they
have any current year funding.

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Future Vision Process
Our legal department has requested the following to be added to our
customer view window, also to display the history of the funding if
the pencil is clicked next to the E-Rate Indicator.
The reason given is: To remain eligible to participate in the FCCs E-
Rate program and track and maintain compliance with the FCC
program rules, VZW Compliance and Legal are requesting
enhancements to Verizon Wireless Systems.
The information for our VISION Schools and Libraries tables will now
come from USAC (Universal Services and Administrative Company)
this is a non-profit company created by the FCC to administer the
universal service programs.

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Future Vision Process
These two E-Rate flags will be added to the ACSS and POS customer view, we will be modifying an
existing customerSearch API to be processed in program FCST602C.
The pencil flag will be
on the customer view
also, but when they
click it, it will call a new
API using PCST602N,
to display funding
history.

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If you want to know more about E-Rate this is a good sight, USAC is a non-profit organization created by the FCC.
http://www.usac.org/sl/
Questions ?