Goto Section: 54.603 | 54.605 | Table of Contents
FCC 54.604
Revised as of October 5, 2017
Goto Year:2016 |
2018
§ 54.604 Consortia, telecommunications services, and existing contracts.
(a) Consortia. (1) Under the Telecommunications Program, an eligible
health care provider may join a consortium with other eligible health
care providers; with schools, libraries, and library consortia eligible
under subpart F of this part; and with public sector (governmental)
entities to order telecommunications services. With one exception,
eligible health care providers participating in consortia with
ineligible private sector members shall not be eligible for supported
services under this subpart. A consortium may include ineligible
private sector entities if such consortium is only receiving services
at tariffed rates or at market rates from those providers who do not
file tariffs.
(2) For consortia, universal service support under the
Telecommunications Program shall apply only to the portion of eligible
services used by an eligible health care provider.
(b) Telecommunications Services. Any telecommunications service that is
the subject of a properly completed bona fide request by a rural health
care provider shall be eligible for universal service support, subject
to the limitations described in this paragraph. The length of a
supported telecommunications service may not exceed the distance
between the health care provider and the point farthest from that
provider on the jurisdictional boundary of the largest city in a state
as defined in § 54.625(a).
(c) Existing contracts. A signed contract for services eligible for
Telecommunications Program support pursuant to this subpart between an
eligible health care provider as defined under § 54.600 and a
telecommunications carrier shall be exempt from the competitive bid
requirements set forth in § 54.603(a) as follows:
(1) A contract signed on or before July 10, 1997 is exempt from the
competitive bid requirement for the life of the contract.
(2) [Reserved]
(d) For rural health care providers that take service under or pursuant
to a master contract, as defined in § 54.500(f), the date of execution
of that master contract represents the applicable date for purposes of
determining whether and to what extent the rural health care provider
is exempt from the competitive bid requirements.
(e) The competitive bid system will be deemed to be operational when
the Administrator is ready to accept and post FCC Form 465 from rural
health care providers on a website and that website is available for
use by telecommunications carriers.
[ 63 FR 2131 , Jan. 13, 1998; 63 FR 33586 , June 19, 1998, as amended at
63 FR 70572 , Dec. 21, 1998; 64 FR 22810 , Apr. 28, 1999; 71 FR 65750 ,
Nov. 9, 2006; 78 FR 13983 , Mar. 1, 2013]
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Goto Section: 54.603 | 54.605
Goto Year: 2016 |
2018
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