May 23, 2025
2025 In-Person Trainings – Save the Dates
E-Rate experts will provide training, discuss program updates, and answer questions from new and experienced participants. We will announce when registration opens in the next News Brief.
- E-Rate Training: September 9, 2025, Denver, Colorado.
- E-Rate Training: September 16, 2025, Washington, D.C.
May 23, 2025
International Society for Technology in Education’s ISTELive Conference (Texas)
Visit USAC at the International Society for Technology in Education’s ISTELive Conference (Texas), June 29–July 2, 2025. Event link.
May 23, 2025
Service Provider Webinar
This webinar is for Service Providers who are new to the E-Rate program. After attending this webinar, you will be able to: accurately describe what E-Rate is and the different steps of the E-Rate process, obtain a service provider identification number (SPIN), bid on projects, assist the applicant or beneficiary, certify compliance, and invoice USAC. Before attending this webinar, please review the E-Rate Program Overview webinar for a deeper understanding of the program. Register.
May 22, 2025
Invoicing: Applicant & Service Provider Training
The E-Rate program will host an Invoice Training Webinar. This webinar is designed to help E-Rate program participants (applicants and service providers) understand the invoicing process. The webinar will cover how to submit the FCC Form 472 (BEAR Form) and the FCC Form 474 (SPI Form), invoice deadlines, invoicing reviews, and more. After the presentation, there will conduct a live Q&A session. This webinar is recommended for Applicants and Service Providers at all E-Rate experience levels. Register.
April 23, 2025
FCC Suspends Seven Convicted of Fraud from E-Rate Program
On April 16, 2025, the FCC suspended seven individuals who were convicted of fraud related to their participation in the E-Rate program. From around 2010 to 2016, corporations controlled by these individuals requested over $35 million and received over $14 million in E-Rate funds, but they did not provide much of the equipment for which they billed the federal government. The FCC’s Enforcement Bureau suspended each individual from further participation in the E-Rate program and began proceedings to ban them from participation in the future.
