The Universal Service Administration Company (USAC) is a private, not-for-profit corporation that is responsible for telecommunications services through the E-rate Funding Program. E-rate is designed to assist schools and districts install the required infrastructure to provide classroom Internet access for students and staff. The program does this by providing a federally subsidized discount program, which is based on the free and reduced lunch percentage of each school or district. E-rate then translates that percentage to an equivalent or higher E-rate discount percentage.