On April 10, The Schools and Libraries Division (SLD) of the Universal Service Administrative Co. (USAC), the outfit that manages the $2.25 billion-a-year federal e-Rate program,announced that intranet web hosting has been classified as e-Rate eligible beginning with the FY2009 program year. This change comes two months after the FY2009 filing window closed.

Schools and libraries that have applied to have eligible components of web hosting services funded by the e-Rate can follow a USAC procedure to update these funding requests, which now can include intranet or password-protected web sites.

To read more about this development and learn more about the procedure to update funding requests, click here.