[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 47, Volume 3]
[Revised as of October 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 47CFR54.506]

[Page 142]
 
                       TITLE 47--TELECOMMUNICATION
 
        CHAPTER I--FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (CONTINUED)
 
PART 54_UNIVERSAL SERVICE--Table of Contents
 
      Subpart F_Universal Service Support for Schools and Libraries
 
Sec. 54.506  Internal connections.

    (a) A service is eligible for support as a component of an 
institution's internal connections if such service is necessary to 
transport information within one or more instructional buildings of a 
single school campus or within one or more non-administrative buildings 
that comprise a single library branch. Discounts are not available for 
internal connections in non-instructional buildings of a school or 
school district, or in administrative buildings of a library, to the 
extent that a library system has separate administrative buildings, 
unless those internal connections are essential for the effective 
transport of information to an instructional building of a school or to 
a non-administrative building of a library. Internal connections do not 
include connections that extend beyond a single school campus or single 
library branch. There is a rebuttable presumption that a connection does 
not constitute an internal connection if it crosses a public right-of-
way.
    (b) Basic maintenance services. Basic maintenance services shall be 
eligible as an internal connections service if, but for the maintenance 
at issue, the internal connection would not function and serve its 
intended purpose with the degree of reliability ordinarily provided in 
the marketplace to entities receiving such services. Basic maintenance 
services do not include services that maintain equipment that is not 
supported or that enhance the utility of equipment beyond the transport 
of information, or diagnostic services in excess of those necessary to 
maintain the equipment's ability to transport information.
    (c) Frequency of discounts for internal connections services. Each 
eligible school or library shall be eligible for support for internal 
connections services, except basic maintenance services, no more than 
twice every five funding years. For the purpose of determining 
eligibility, the five-year period begins in any funding year, starting 
with Funding Year 2005, in which the school or library receives 
discounted internal connections services other than basic maintenance 
services. If a school or library receives internal connections services 
other than basic maintenance services that are shared with other schools 
or libraries (for example, as part of a consortium), the shared services 
will be attributed the school or library in determining whether it is 
eligible for support.

[69 FR 6191, Feb. 10, 2004]