{"id":1042934,"date":"2026-10-14T07:55:03","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T02:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1042934"},"modified":"2026-10-14T08:02:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T02:32:44","slug":"us-senate-report-says-spending-on-consultants-for-internet-subsidy-program-tops-200-million-annually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/14\/us-senate-report-says-spending-on-consultants-for-internet-subsidy-program-tops-200-million-annually\/","title":{"rendered":"US Senate report says spending on consultants for internet subsidy program tops $200 million annually"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: A US Senate committee report released on Tuesday said consultants who assist schools and libraries in winning funding from a $3 billion annual internet subsidy program receive between $200 million and $400 million annually. <\/p>\n<p>Senate Commerce Committee chair Ted Cruz said consultants help the applicants for the Federal Communications Commission E-Rate program &#8220;comply with a Byzantine process that has become a costly feature of the program.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: A US Senate committee report released on Tuesday said consultants who assist schools and libraries in winning funding from a $3 billion annual internet subsidy program receive between $200 million and $400 million annually. Senate Commerce Committee chair Ted Cruz said consultants help the applicants for the Federal Communications Commission E-Rate program &#8220;comply with a Byzantine process that has become a costly feature of the program.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1042934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1042934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1042948,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042934\/revisions\/1042948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1042934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1042934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1042934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}