EPB, a municipally-owned electric company in Chattanooga, Tennessee, is now offering low-income residents of the city really high-speed internet at really low prices.
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Bad news for needy Americans: Comcast announces that its merger with Time Warner Cable is dead
If the Comcast / Time Warner merger would have been approved, Comcast would have likely extended their $9.95/ month low-income Internet Essentials program to Time Warner customers.
Read the full article →A problem with Internet Essentials: No wireless routers
You’ve done a great job with Internet Essentials, Comcast, but it’s time to start offering your wireless capability as part of the basic Internet Essentials package.
Read the full article →California’s bungling bureaucrats try to hijack Comcast’s Internet Essentials program
California’s bungling bureaucrats want to wreak their own special brand of havoc upon Comcast’s incredibly successful Internet Essentials program.
Read the full article →Four years of Internet Essentials: The program keeps growing
Internet Essentials just issued its four annual report (February 2015) and the news is good: A lot more Americans are being helped by this great program.
Read the full article →California demands more for the poor: Comcast-Time Warner merger approval contingent on additional services for the needy
We agree with the California PUC’s demand that Comcast abstain from working against municipalities that want to bring reliable, high-speed, low-priced internet services to their citizens.
Read the full article →Comcast raises rates, but keeps Internet Essentials at the same affordable $9.95 per month
These are good days to be an Internet Essentials subscriber. Or maybe it would be more accurate to say these are bad days to be a regular cable subscriber.
Read the full article →Comcast enhances Internet Essentials: Now offers six months free internet, overdue bill amnesty, and more
New Internet Essentials customers signing on between August 4 and September 20, 2013 will get up to six months of free service. And, the company eliminated the rule that prohibited accounts for anyone with a past due Comcast balance.
Read the full article →Why does Comcast’s Internet Essentials reach just 12% of its target audience?
Comcast just announced that 1.2 million Americans have already signed up for Internet Essentials, the company’s low-price (just $9.95 per month), high-speed Internet service for the nation’s neediest citizens.
Read the full article →Why the Comcast-Time Warner merger is good for low income Americans
If, as he says, Senator Franken wants to see a clear benefit from the proposed merger between Comcast and Time-Warner, we suggest he take a close look at how many more low-income Americans could gain access to Comcast’s outstanding Internet Essentials program.
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