July 24, 2025
Open Data Webinar Part 2: Creating Reports and Visualizations
This follow-up webinar to the Open Data Overview (Webinar 1) dives more deeply into using E-Rate’s tools. Participants can expect tangible examples on how to create custom reports and visuals for an enhanced program experience. To be successful in this webinar, you should have attended Webinar 1. Register.
July 24, 2025
Open Data Webinar Part 1: Open Data Overview
Enhance your E-Rate program experience with Open Data, USAC’s data sharing platform. This webinar is the first in a two-part series and provides an overview of the E-Rate specific tools and datasets in Open Data. Register.
June 26, 2025
2025 In-Person E-Rate Training
E-Rate experts will provide training, discuss program updates, and answer questions from new and experienced participants. Registration for these two in-person training events on Thursday, June 26, 2025, at 3:00 pm ET (this time has been adjusted to better serve program participants on both the East and West coasts). For more information on these events and to register, visit the In-Person E-Rate Training Events webpage.
E-Rate Training – Denver: September 9, 2025, at the Lowry Conference Center located in the Community College of Aurora – Lowry Campus, 1061 Akron Way, Denver, Colorado.
E-Rate In-Person Training – Washington, DC: September 16, 2025, at the Federal Communication Commission headquarters, 45 L Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. There will be an option to attend virtually.
June 19, 2025
Service Providers: File any SPACs for Prior Years
If you haven’t already filed your FCC Form 473 (SPAC) for FY2024 and earlier, the deadline to submit these forms is June 30, 2025. USAC will send a reminder to service providers on July 1 if they have not submitted a SPAC for any funding year, Funding Request Numbers they are associated with. Service providers will have two weeks after the reminder to file their missing SPACs, after which USAC begins the referral process to the FCC Enforcement Bureau. To learn more about service provider filing requirements, see last month’s news brief.
