A.

Funding Commitments for FY2007

B.

Service Provider Training

C.

Update to Eligibility Table for Non-traditional K-12 Students/Facilities

D.

Sample Service Provider Letters on Website

E.

Invoicing Update

F.

Other

G.

General Questions Received by E-mail

1.  Based upon the Estimate of Demand for Funding Year 2008 letter dated February 29, 2008 that USAC sent to the FCC, unless the actual demand actually goes down significantly, it does not appear USAC has enough money to fully approve all the Priority Two Internal Connections projects in the 90% discount band. If the demand does not go down enough to fully fund all the 90% IC projects, how will USAC handle this? What are USAC's options?

2.  There used to be a site, where you could go in & see Service Provider Conference call minutes. Can you please lead me to this path, so I can look at minutes for conference calls that I was not able to join in on?

3.  I have a customer who files Service Substitutions for 4 different FRN's. When I called USAC to see if they were approved they told me that they can not provide that information to the Service Provider. How are we to move on with only word from the applicant that it was approved? Not knowing if we will be able to invoice and get paid at a later date?

Also if it was approved where do I see if the Delivery Deadline changed because it was suppose to?

4.   An applicant signed a 3 year contract for 40 MB of Internet access in February of 2008 after waiting 28 days and evaluating bids. The applicant then submitted their Form 471 before the deadline of 2/6/2008.

The applicant has now discovered that they can obtain, from the same service provider, 80 MB of bandwidth for a marginal increase in cost.

Question: Is the applicant allowed to sign a 3 year contract in April or May for the new 80 MB service and be funded in Year 2008? If so, is the Form 470 still "valid" (posted in Nov of 2007 requesting a minimum of 40 MB Internet access)? We understand that the applicant may not ask for an increase in funding in this case, but we are worried that funding would be denied because the contract was signed post-submission of Form 471.

Would the applicant be penalized if an audit occurred at a later date and the auditing firm discovered that the contract was signed after submitting the Form 471?

Perhaps this situation is best handled by a service substitution, which would be fine. If that is the case, then the same questions about which 470 to cite and contracts signed after Form 471 submission still are relevant.

5.   Will the 2008 Service Provider Training be available via webcast this year? If not, will it be available to view later on USAC's website?