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SLD Now Posts SPINs on Website/Updates Contact Search Feature
Message Posted January 10, 2002

The SLD has provided another enhanced feature to their website -- an improved BEAR/SPIN Search function that provides more information to assist applicants in identifying Service Providers, including SPIN Numbers, Service Provider contact information and whether companies have been determined by SLD to be eligible to provide telecommunications services. The BEAR/SPIN Search can be accessed from the Reference Area of the SLD web site.

Once you connect to the BEAR/SPIN Search area, you will enter the full Service Provider name, a partial name with a "wild card" option (best option), or the SPIN (Service Provider Identification Number). You must then click the NEXT button in order to start the search.
The information returned by the search shows:
* the SPIN,
* the full Service Provider (company) name,
* the contact person, contact address and contact phone (all as indicted in the company's most recent Form 498 filing), and
* whether the company is an eligible telecommunications provider. (A "Y" in this column indicates that this company has been determined by SLD to be eligible to provide telecommunications services under the Schools and Libraries Support Mechanism).

Note: The absence of a "Y" in the last column may simply indicate that the company has not yet been researched by the SLD to determine if it is eligible to provide telecommunications services. Applicants are reminded that they should confirm this and all other information with their Service
Provider.

Service Providers are reminded that updates to this information are accomplished only through the filing of a revised Form 498. The Form 498 and Instructions are available for download from the SLD web site in the SLD Forms area.

Julie Tritt Schell
Director, Office of Educational Technology
Pennsylvania Department of Education
(717) 705-4486
(717) 787-7222 - fax
www.L2L.org

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