Tech firm's co-owner sentenced for E-Rate fraud

21.06.2011

The E-Rate program was created by Congress in the Telecommunications Act of 1996 and is administered by the Universal Service Administrative Co., under the oversight of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. The program provides subsidies to economically disadvantaged schools and libraries, paying 20 to 90 percent of the cost for Internet access and telecommunications services, as well as internal computer and communications networks.

The IDG News Service