The Emergency Broadband Benefit will end on March 1, 2022. But fear not because it will immediately be replaced by the Affordable Connectivity Program on that date.
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Huge discounts now available: Save $50 per month on broadband internet service
The government is now offering $50 per month discounts for anyone who qualifies (and you’d be surprised how easy it is to qualify). It’s called the Emergency Broadband Benefit (EBB).
Read the full article →Loondoggle? Google’s plan to beam internet from huge balloons to rural areas crashes and burns.
Cue Queen’s “Another One Bites the Dust” because Google has called it quits and relegated Project Loon to the proverbial dustbin of ideas that didn’t fly.
Read the full article →Introducing ConnectAll: Available everywhere for almost everyone
There’s a brand new low-income internet plan in town. It’s called ConnectAll and sounds like one of the very best options available.
Read the full article →Free internet coming your way: How low-income Americans will benefit from Sprint’s $40 billion merger with T-Mobile
T-Mobile’s plan that the new, merged behemoth would roll out a free, low-income internet plan to help poor American children close the “homework gap” has just been approved.
Well, a U.S. District Judge just approved the deal, so it will soon be time for Legere, T-Mobile and Sprint to put up or shut up.
Read the full article →1500 down, 1600 to go: San Francisco bringing free, high-speed Internet to 3100 low-income families
San Francisco’s streets may be full of human excrement and littered with drug addicts’ used syringes, but by God, its low-income citizens can now get free internet service. They even won an award for it.
Read the full article →Spectrum increases monthly price of Internet Assist from $14.99 to $17.99
Spectrum has increased the price of it’s low-income internet access program by $3.00 per month as of November 28, 2019.
Read the full article →Bernie Sanders says internet is a basic human right, wants affordable plans for everyone
Bernie Sanders is looks for votes by proposing a revolutionary plan to bring the internet under government control and low, affordable rates to the masses.
Read the full article →Internet Essentials expands again: Now available to all low-income Americans, the disabled, and seniors on Medicaid
Comcast has once again proved its commitment to low-income Americans by opening up its Internet Essentials program to ALL low-income Americans, people with disabilities and seniors on Medicaid.
Read the full article →Elon Musk cleans house: “At least” seven managers fired at his internet-for-everyone company
News has leaked that Elon Musk terminated “at least seven” senior managers who had been working on his plan to build his network of satellites designed to bring internet to everyone on earth.
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