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FCC 54.500
Revised as of October 2, 2015
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2016
§ 54.500 Terms and definitions.
Basic maintenance. A service is eligible for support as a “basic
maintenance” 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 by E-rate 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.
Billed entity. A “billed entity” is the entity that remits payment to
service providers for services rendered to eligible schools and libraries.
Consortium. A “consortium” is any local, statewide, regional, or interstate
cooperative association of schools and/or libraries eligible for E-rate
support that seeks competitive bids for eligible services or funding for
eligible services on behalf of some or all of its members. A consortium may
also include health care providers eligible under subpart G of this part,
and public sector (governmental) entities, including, but not limited to,
state colleges and state universities, state educational broadcasters,
counties, and municipalities, although such entities are not eligible for
support. Eligible schools and libraries may not join consortia with
ineligible private sector members unless the pre-discount prices of any
services that such consortium receives are generally tariffed rates.
Educational purposes. For purposes of this subpart, activities that are
integral, immediate, and proximate to the education of students, or in the
case of libraries, integral, immediate and proximate to the provision of
library services to library patrons, qualify as “educational purposes.”
Activities that occur on library or school property are presumed to be
integral, immediate, and proximate to the education of students or the
provision of library services to library patrons.
Elementary school. An “elementary school” means an elementary school as
defined in 20 U.S.C. 7801(18), a non-profit institutional day or residential
school, including a public elementary charter school, that provides
elementary education, as determined under state law.
Internal connections. A service is eligible for support as a component of an
institution's “internal connections” if such service is necessary to
transport or distribute broadband 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.
Library. A “library” includes:
(1) A public library;
(2) A public elementary school or secondary school library;
(3) An academic library;
(4) A research library, which for the purpose of this section means a
library that:
(i) Makes publicly available library services and materials suitable for
scholarly research and not otherwise available to the public; and
(ii) Is not an integral part of an institution of higher education; and
(5) A private library, but only if the state in which such private library
is located determines that the library should be considered a library for
the purposes of this definition.
Library consortium. A “library consortium” is any local, statewide,
regional, or interstate cooperative association of libraries that provides
for the systematic and effective coordination of the resources of schools,
public, academic, and special libraries and information centers, for
improving services to the clientele of such libraries. For the purposes of
these rules, references to library will also refer to library consortium.
Lowest corresponding price. “Lowest corresponding price” is the lowest price
that a service provider charges to non-residential customers who are
similarly situated to a particular school, library, or library consortium
for similar services.
Managed internal broadband services. A service is eligible for support as
“managed internal broadband services” if provided by a third party for the
operation, management, and monitoring of the eligible components of a school
or library local area network (LAN) and/or wireless LAN.
Master contract. A “master contract” is a contract negotiated with a service
provider by a third party, the terms and conditions of which are then made
available to an eligible school, library, rural health care provider, or
consortium that purchases directly from the service provider.
Minor contract modification. A “minor contract modification” is a change to
a universal service contract that is within the scope of the original
contract and has no effect or merely a negligible effect on price, quantity,
quality, or delivery under the original contract.
National school lunch program. The “national school lunch program” is a
program administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and state
agencies that provides free or reduced price lunches to economically
disadvantaged children. A child whose family income is between 130 percent
and 185 percent of applicable family size income levels contained in the
nonfarm poverty guidelines prescribed by the Office of Management and Budget
is eligible for a reduced price lunch. A child whose family income is 130
percent or less of applicable family size income levels contained in the
nonfarm income poverty guidelines prescribed by the Office of Management and
Budget is eligible for a free lunch.
Pre-discount price. The “pre-discount price” means, in this subpart, the
price the service provider agrees to accept as total payment for its
telecommunications or information services. This amount is the sum of the
amount the service provider expects to receive from the eligible school or
library and the amount it expects to receive as reimbursement from the
universal service support mechanisms for the discounts provided under this
subpart.
Secondary school. A “secondary school” means a secondary school as defined
in 20 U.S.C. 7801(38), a non-profit institutional day or residential school,
including a public secondary charter school, that provides secondary
education, as determined under state law except that the term does not
include any education beyond grade 12.
State telecommunications network. A “state telecommunications network” is a
state government entity that procures, among other things,
telecommunications offerings from multiple service providers and bundles
such offerings into packages available to schools, libraries, or rural
health care providers that are eligible for universal service support, or a
state government entity that provides, using its own facilities, such
telecommunications offerings to such schools, libraries, and rural health
care providers.
Voice services. “Voice services” include local phone service, long distance
service, plain old telephone service (POTS), radio loop, 800 service,
satellite telephone, shared telephone service, Centrex, wireless telephone
service such as cellular, interconnected voice over Internet protocol
(VoIP), and the circuit capacity dedicated to providing voice services.
Wide area network. For purposes of this subpart, a “wide area network” is a
voice or data network that provides connections from one or more computers
within an eligible school or library to one or more computers or networks
that are external to such eligible school or library. Excluded from this
definition is a voice or data network that provides connections between or
among instructional buildings of a single school campus or between or among
non-administrative buildings of a single library branch.
[ 63 FR 2128 , Jan. 13, 1998, as amended at 68 FR 36942 , June 20, 2003; 76 FR 56302 , Sept. 13, 2011; 79 FR 49197 , Aug. 19, 2014; 79 FR 68634 , Nov. 18,
2014]
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