Minutes for October 12, 2005 Service Provider Call

We plan to continue to issue funding commitments each week for both FY2005 and FY2004 applications. Please note that this means that some waves will be smaller if there are fewer applications ready for commitment that week.

FY 2005
Wave 013, 09-21-05: $ 17.591 million
Wave 014, 09-28-05: $ 20.796 million
Wave 015, 10-05-05: $ 18.748 million
Wave 016, 10-12-05: $195.351 million

Wave 16 for FY2005 includes commitments on Internal Connections at the 90% discount level.

FY 2004
Wave 034, 09-20-05: $ 3.173 million
Wave 035, 10-04-05: $ .062 million
Wave 036, 10-12-05: $ .428 million

B.

There is no guidance for Hurricane Katrina relief at this time.

C.

FY2006 Form 471 Filing Window Opening

The FY2006 Eligible Services List has not yet been released by the FCC. Consequently, a date has not yet been established for the opening of the FY2006 Form 471 application filing window.

Electronic Newsletter

Starting this week, USAC will be issuing a one-page weekly newsletter with information for both applicants and service providers. For the first issue, everyone on the list to receive this call agenda, along with applicants who filed a program form for FY2005, will receive a copy of the newsletter. Following that, subscribe and unsubscribe instructions will be made available. Copies of the newsletters will also be archived on this website.

Invoicing Update

• 28,670 lines processed
• $228,055,914.87 requested
• $179,694,312.92 paid
• 81% of invoices were cleared within 7 days
• 90% of invoices were cleared within 30 days
• To be reviewed: 6397 lines, totaling $338 million

The deadline for invoices (BEAR Form 472 or SPI Form 474) for FY2004 recurring services is 10/28/2005.

The deadline for filing Form 486 for services that started 7/1/2005 — if an FCDL was issued on or before that date — is 10/31/2005. (Note that 10/29/2005, the date when the Form 486 is normally due under these conditions, falls on a Saturday.)

Top 9 Invoicing Denial Reasons:
• No Payment, Total Commitment Paid
• Possible Duplicate Invoice
• No Form 486 Filed Before Invoice Received
• 471 Not Provided
• FRN Not Provided
• Invalid Form 471 and FRN Combination
• Service Provider not Certified (did not file Form 473 –SPAC)
• Billing Beyond Funding Year
• Invalid SPIN for FRN

Other

No other issues.

General Questions Received by E-mail

No questions received by e-mail.