#priority 2

It's interesting that the foreign press is possibly following the elimination of P2 funding more closely than our own… check out this piece from the British technology news/opinion website The Register March 18...

This past week the FCC recognized the outcry from the Education Community and is asking for suggestions specifically on the future of E-Rate Priority 2 funding...

OK FCC let's sit down at the table and deal...

let's make P2 available twice out of eight years instead of two out of five

let's target wireless deployment and saturation internally to match the speed of the broadband service intended in Priority 1

let's set a standard range of pricing for the acquisition/installation in the first year and then the maintenance/upgrade in the next year of the 2 of 8

let's re-look at the discount structure based on the "pie"

If you require content filtering to receive P1 then add it alongside the wireless target in P2

that's a lot for our side to leave on the table… why? because y'all need to do something about the elimination of Year 16 P2 funding! To yank it like you did midstream with really little warning was just wrong… there are a lot of districts, schools and libraries that are now in a bad place because of it...

oh and please stop whining about the schools & districts that have missed the boat for the past sixteen years… that's on them

The FCC through E-Rate has 17 years worth of incredible data on technology in our country's schools & libraries that they can crunch and make available. They could probably serve up a pretty good set of engineering guidelines to help reach the fast connection/fast delivery goal.