Schools, Libraries, and Municipalities can benefit greatly from SNiP's twelve years of experience providing high speed Internet and telephone services to this market. Special discount programs are hiding out behind red-tape and SNiP knows just how to help you cut through to prove the most cost effective telecommunications solutions possible.

The primary benefits of SNiP’s products and services that support the Education and Municipal market are:

• We're E-Rate experts! The Schools and Libraries Universal Service support mechanism (E-Rate) was established as part of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 with the express purpose of providing affordable access to telecommunications services for all eligible schools and libraries, particularly those in rural and economically disadvantaged areas. SNiP has on staff and consultant E-Rate experts that will help guide you through the E-Rate process with the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC).
• We're Access-NJ experts! In conjunction with SNiP, Verizon New Jersey offers deeply discounted rates for ISDN, Frame Relay, and ATM high speed circuits that can drastically reduce the cost of delivering high speed Internet Access to your school or library. Additionally Customer Premise Equipment (CPE) is included free of charge. SNiP has on staff and consultant Access-NJ experts that will help guide you through the Access-NJ process.
• We're CIPA experts! In 2000 congress enacted the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) to address concerns about access to offensive content over the Internet on school and library computers. CIPA imposes certain types of requirements on any school or library that receives funding support for Internet access or internal connections from the E-Rate program. SNiP has remotely hosted products that can help implement a certified CIPA program at your school or library without the expense of purchasing and maintaining on-site equipment and software.
• Single vendor integration of Voice, Data and Hosted Applications means one call for support and service.
• Our Regional Network makes regional calling extremely cost effective. If you are a typical school or municipality you do most of your business regionally where our per minute rates are super low.