Cheap Internet News and Blog Archive

Internet Essential low-income internet program growing quickly

April 14, 2013

Cable giant Comcast confirms that Internet Essentials, its version of the low-income cheap internet program, is growing rapidly and exceeding its rosiest projections.

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How to get cheap internet even if you don’t qualify for Connect2Compete

April 11, 2013

Connect2Compete has worked out a deal with a company called Freedom Pop to offer a internet access to those people who can’t find affordable internet access anywhere else.

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Connect2Compete’s make more people eligible for cheap internet (despite confusing new rules)

March 22, 2013

The good news is that Connect2Compete has introduced new rules that make more people eligible for cheap internet, cheap computers, and digital literacy training. The bad news is that the 64 words that outline those new rules are almost incomprehensible.

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New Connect2Compete public service announcement: We review it.

March 21, 2013

We’ve eagerly awaited the day that Connect2Compete and the AdCouncil break their long-promised campaign to promote nationwide cheap internet for America’s needy.

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Connect2Compete to launch nationwide (almost) digital literacy training program

March 18, 2013

If you haven’t yet heard of Connect2Compete, you’ll be hearing plenty about it in the coming months.

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You may be eligible: Internet Essentials makes major expansion

March 16, 2013

Comcast Executive Vice President David Cohen says the Internet Essentials program is expanding rapidly. And, we might add, expanding in a lot of ways that will help a lot of people.

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Here comes Connect2Compete: Cheap internet program ready to roll out nationally

March 10, 2013

After successfully completing a series of test programs around the country, Connect2Compete will launch nationally on March 21 in order to bring inexpensive digital opportunities to all low-income Americans.

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Feds join coalition to promote cheap government internet program

February 21, 2013

Federal Communications Chairman Julius Genachowski and Housing & Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan have announced that HUD is adding its support to Connect2Compete

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Is this the beginning of free government internet?

February 13, 2013

This is a pilot program that will fir the first ti,e provide low income Americans with smart phones with which they can access the internet.

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You can’t please everyone: Some critics hate Comcast’s Internet Essentials program

February 11, 2013

There’s a school district in the suburbs outside Philadelphia in which the district’s superintendent has banned Internet Essentials promotional materials.

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