The FCC should designate a portion of its...

The FCC should designate a portion of its E-rate “down payment” to Priority 1 services, while it designates a large portion for Priority 2 services, the American Library Association told a Wireline Bureau official Thursday, an ex parte filing in docket 10-90 said Friday (http://bit.ly/1iQzJLM). In any future funding models, current Priority 1 services need to continue to be fully funded, ALA said. Priority 1 services, currently funded first, deal with telecom services and Internet access to a school or library building; Priority 2 focuses on internal connections. The commission should also review rules that may prohibit school-library partnerships in securing high-capacity broadband, ALA said.