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Universal Service Rural Health Care 2007 Headlines
FCC Launches Initiative to Increase Access
to Health Care in Rural America Through Broadband Telehealth Services.
11/19/07
News Release: Word | Acrobat
Selected Participants: Word | Acrobat
Corrected Order: Word | Acrobat
Erratum (12/17/07): Word | Acrobat
Order: Word | Acrobat
Martin Statement: Word | Acrobat
Copps Statement: Word | Acrobat
Adelstein Statement: Word | Acrobat
Tate Statement: Word | Acrobat
McDowell Statement: Word | Acrobat
- Public Notice (WC Docket No. 02-60). American Telemedicine Association
Petition for Reconsideration - In this Order, the Commission sought
comment on the American Telemedicine Association's Petition for Reconsideration
of the Commission’s Second Report and Order, in which it requested
that the Commission grandfather, for an indefinite period of time,
rural sites that were no longer eligible for rural health care support
under the new definition of rural in the Second Report and Order, but
which were eligible prior to the date of the Second Report and Order.
DA 07-1237 (3/13/07) Word | Acrobat
- Order on Reconsideration (WC Docket No. 02-60). The Commission grant
a Petition filed by National LambdaRail, Inc. (NLR) seeking reconsideration
or, in the alternative, clarification of the Commission’s order establishing
a rural health care pilot program to encourage the provision of telehealth
and telemedicine services throughout the nation. Specifically, we find
that pilot program applicants may request and, if selected, may receive
funding to support up to 85 percent of the cost of connecting state
and regional broadband networks to the University Corporation for Advanced
Internet Development, Inc. (Internet2) or NLR. We further find that
an applicant that proposes to connect its state or regional broadband
networks to Internet2 or NLR may either (1) pre-select Internet2 or
NLR; or (2) seek a competitive bid for the provision of nationwide
backbone services from Internet2 or NLR. To ensure the success of the
pilot program, we expect that Internet2 and NLR will interconnect or
peer with each other. Finally, we provide applicants with an additional
thirty (30) days time to submit their applications to the Commission.
FCC 07-6 (2/6/07) Word | Acrobat
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