SPIN Market Share

Who wins E-Rate, where, and with what.

USAC publishes every E-Rate commitment by SPIN — which service provider won which Form 471, for how much, against which product category, in which state. That's the raw material for a real competitive-intelligence view. ERateSignal turns it into a working market-share dashboard.

What's a SPIN?

A SPIN — Service Provider Identification Number — is the USAC-assigned identifier every E-Rate-eligible service provider uses on commitment filings. Large national resellers hold SPINs. Regional ISPs hold SPINs. So do ISP/cabling shops and even individual OEM-direct arms. Commitments tie to SPINs, so market share analysis has to start there.

What ERateSignal shows you.

Market share by state — which SPINs hold the top commitments in California versus Texas versus New York, by funding year and category.
Market share by product line — who dominates firewalls, who dominates ISP/transport, who's gaining ground in Wi-Fi hotspots and wireless school bus service.
Competitor scorecards — pick a SPIN, see their commitment history: total funded, customer count, geographic concentration, category mix, trailing-12-month trend.
Public outcome context — compare published commitment outcomes, discount rates, and provider footprint in an applicant's public history.
Territory maps — state-level heat overlays for opportunity density, commitment value, and competitor presence.

Why nobody else publishes this.

Consulting firms who work with schools don't need SPIN analytics — they advise applicants. Email-alert services stop at the Form 470 stage. The raw USAC commitment data exists, but it ships as multi-million-row CSVs that most sellers never open.

ERateSignal was built as the missing analytics layer. Every metric is derived from public commitment data USAC publishes at opendata.usac.org. The methodology page documents each dataset and how we aggregate it.

What we don't do.

No bid-price visibility (bid prices are not public until after award). No advance or non-public information. No features that help one service provider prepare another applicant's Form 470 — that's prohibited under 47 CFR § 54.503. Market share analysis from published commitments, nothing more.

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ERateSignal is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by USAC, the FCC, or the U.S. Government. All E-Rate program data displayed on this platform is sourced exclusively from publicly available datasets published by USAC on opendata.usac.org.

Data is provided "as-is" from publicly available USAC sources. ERateSignal makes no guarantee of completeness, accuracy, or timeliness. Users should verify information directly with USAC or EPC before making business decisions.

Market-share analytics are based on published commitment records. ERateSignal does not show bid prices, current bid submissions, or non-public vendor-selection information, and does not replace any E-Rate competitive bidding requirement.