USAC has announced that the FY2015 E-Rate Form 471 filing window has been extended by three weeks and will now close at 11:59 PM EDT on April 16, 2015.

If you need this extension, by all means take advantage of it.

Having said that, PIA is already currently reviewing applications. If you are ready to submit and certify your Form 471, do so soon as those applications that have been submitted, certified and meet program requirements will likely receive a funding decision first.

History tells us that increased usage and heavy traffic will slow down the online Form 471 system significantly in the last weeks of the (newly extended) Form 471 filing window, so I recommend that you file as early as possible.