Goto Section: 54.501 | 54.503 | Table of Contents
FCC 54.502
Revised as of December 4, 2012
Goto Year:2011 |
2013
§ 54.502 Eligible services.
(a) Supported services. Supported services are listed in the Eligible
Services List as updated annually in accordance with paragraph (b) of
this section. The services in this subpart will be supported in
addition to all reasonable charges that are incurred by taking such
services, such as state and federal taxes. Charges for termination
liability, penalty surcharges, and other charges not included in the
cost of taking such service shall not be covered by the universal
service support mechanisms. These supported services fall within the
following general categories:
(1) Telecommunications services. For purposes of this subpart,
supported telecommunications services provided by telecommunications
carriers include all commercially available telecommunications
services.
(2) Telecommunications. For purposes of this subpart, supported
telecommunications can be provided in whole or in part via fiber by any
entity.
(3) Internet access. For purposes of this subpart, Internet access is
as defined in § 54.5.
(4) Internal connections and basic maintenance. (i) For purposes of
this subpart, a service is eligible for support as a component of an
institution's internal connections if such service is necessary to
transport information within one or more instructional buildings of a
single school campus or within one or more non-administrative buildings
that comprise a single library branch. Discounts are not available for
internal connections in non-instructional buildings of a school or
school district, or in administrative buildings of a library, to the
extent that a library system has separate administrative buildings,
unless those internal connections are essential for the effective
transport of information to an instructional building of a school or to
a non-administrative building of a library or the Commission has found
that the use of those services meets the definition of educational
purpose. Internal connections do not include connections that extend
beyond a single school campus or single library branch. There is a
rebuttable presumption that a connection does not constitute an
internal connection if it crosses a public right-of-way.
(ii) For purposes of this subpart, basic maintenance services shall be
eligible as an internal connections service if, but for the maintenance
at issue, the internal connection would not function and serve its
intended purpose with the degree of reliability ordinarily provided in
the marketplace to entities receiving such services. Basic maintenance
services do not include services that maintain equipment that is not
supported or that enhance the utility of equipment beyond the transport
of information, or diagnostic services in excess of those necessary to
maintain the equipment's ability to transport information.
(iii) Each eligible school or library shall be eligible for support for
internal connections services, except basic maintenance services, no
more than twice every five funding years. For the purpose of
determining eligibility, the five-year period begins in any funding
year in which the school or library receives discounted internal
connections services other than basic maintenance services. If a school
or library receives internal connections services other than basic
maintenance services that are shared with other schools or libraries
(for example, as part of a consortium), the shared services will be
attributed to the school or library in determining whether it is
eligible for support.
(b) Eligible Services List. (1) The Administrator shall submit by March
30 of each year a draft list of services eligible for support, based on
the Commission's rules for the following funding year. The Wireline
Competition Bureau will issue a Public Notice seeking comment on the
Administrator's proposed eligible services list. At least 60 days prior
to the opening of the window for the following funding year, the final
list of services eligible for support will be released.
(2) All supported services are listed in the Eligible Services List as
updated annually in accordance with paragraph (b)(1) of this section.
[ 75 FR 75411 , Dec. 3, 2010]
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Goto Section: 54.501 | 54.503
Goto Year: 2011 |
2013
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