A.

Funding Commitments for FY2007

B.

FY2008 Window Close Activities

C.

New Automated Search of Commitments Tool

D.

Update on Service Provider Training

E.

Invoicing Update

F.

Other

G.

General Questions Received by E-mail

1. We currently do not receive an email letting us know that there are BEARS awaiting certification. How do we get this notification?

2. We currently have a number of "old" Bears sitting out online awaiting certification that should really be deleted. Most have also been submitted via paper and approved via paper, so in order not to duplicate we have just been waiting for them to age off the online system. There are a number of them out there so in order not be get confused we are wondering if there is a way to get these deleted?

3. How can an applicant tell if a service provider has filed a "global service substitution"? Often the manufacturer of the equipment does not sell directly to the public, only through resellers who would have no idea when and if the manufacturer filed a service substitution for discontinued models. Does the SLD maintain a list of approved "to and from" global service substitutions?

4. Several potential customers have insisted in their RFP response that we include a clause/addendum to the proposed contract that they can be released from the contract if their funding is cut dramatically or is denied altogether. They say that the FCC (and by extension USAC) allows them this release clause and it is an FCC mandate. I have been unable to find any such statement in the USAC website in the applicant directions. Am I missing something?

5. Several potential customers have insisted that the effective contract date must be 07/01/YYYY for single year and multi-year contracts. In one instance the actual contract date would have been several weeks after 07/01 but the potential customer is requesting that should they receive a funding commitment, that they would be locked into the pricing starting with the 07/01 invoice even if the date on the contract is after 07/01. Is it correct that contracts must have an effective start date of 07/01?