How are discounts calculated for groups which aggregate services for a number of schools or libraries?
This answer may change as the FCC is reexamining the issue of aggregation as part of a recent request for comments. The current answer depends on whether the school district is aggregating traffic through a central site (that is, a shared facility, such as shared router connected over a T1 1.544 Mbps circuit to an Internet Service Provider), or whether it is cooperatively bidding services (another method of aggregation) as part of a consortia. • If schools are cooperatively bidding, the best guidance available from the FCC on calculating discounts is paragraph 523 of the Order, which states that school districts are allowed to decide to compute the discounts on an individual school basis or may decide to compute an average discount; in either case, the district shall strive to ensure that each school receives the full benefit for the discount to which it is entitled. The FCC has clarified that the average discount must be calculated as a weighted average. • If schools are aggregating t
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