Announcements Archive

November 30, 2023

EPC Will Be Unavailable from 12/1 to 12/2 for System Upgrade

USAC will be performing an upgrade to the E-Rate Productivity Center (EPC) starting December 1 at 7 p.m. EST and finishing on December 2 at 10 a.m. EST. The system will be unavailable during this upgrade.

November 7, 2023

E-Rate Systems Consolidation: EPC Available for All Users

USAC completed the E-Rate systems consolidation on November 7 to move the E-Rate Legacy systems into the E-Rate Productivity Center (EPC), including all invoicing functionality. All processing in EPC may now resume including submission of FCC Form 472/BEAR, FCC Form 473/SPAC, and FCC Form 474/SPI. For more information, see the November 7, 2023 E-Rate News Brief Special Edition.

November 3, 2023

E-Rate Systems Consolidation – EPC Outage November 3-7, 2023

The E-Rate Productivity Center (EPC) will be unavailable for all users from 12:00 p.m. ET today, November 3, until 9:00 a.m. ET on November 7, 2023 while USAC consolidates its SL Legacy systems into EPC. Read the October 12, 2023 Special Edition E-Rate News Brief to learn more.

October 24, 2023

E-Rate Productivity Center (EPC) Outage Due to System Maintenance: October 25

Due to emergency networking maintenance, the E-Rate Productivity Center (EPC) CGR application will be down between 9 pm and 10 pm EST.  

October 11, 2023

EPC Admin Window Opens

The administrative window is the period during which applicants can make updates to their entity profile information in EPC to prepare for the upcoming FCC Form 471 application filing window. The administrative window opens Tuesday, October 24 and will close shortly before the FY2024 application filing window opens early in 2024 when applicant entity profiles will be locked