Great news for America’s neediest citizens because Charter has promised to introduce a brand new high-speed, low-income Internet plan within six months of that date, which means the new plan should launch by November 18, 2016.
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Huge Internet Essentials expansion: $10 per month plan now available to HUD families with no children
If there’s one complaint we hear most often here at CheapInternet.com, it is that none of the low-income Internet plans are available to families without children. Well, Comcast and its Internet Essentials program has taken a big step toward solving that problem. Comcast and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (otherwise known as […]
Read the full article →Major announcement: FCC introduces Lifeline Broadband
The FCC expanded the Lifeline Assistance free government cell phone program and it now includes internet service. In fact, the FCC is changing the whole emphasis of the Lifeline program from free government cell phones to Lifeline Broadband.
Read the full article →Breaking News! AT&T offers $5 high-speed internet to low-income families.
This is big news. Telephone, Internet and cable TV behemoth AT&T is now offering high-speed internet to low-income families for just $5 a month. There’s just one small catch — and it’s a very small one, indeed — at least one person in the household must receive food stamp benefits (SNAP).
Read the full article →Cox Cable offering low-cost Internet to HUD-assisted families with children in 18 states
Cox Communications is now offering low-cost internet to any HUD-assisted household with school-age children within Cox’s 18-state service area — including Arizona, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Nebraska, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Virginia.
Read the full article →To live and die in LA: Free government WiFi program dying (maybe already dead) in Los Angeles
Was MCT’s free wifi for L.A. a scam from the beginning? Was it a rip-off of government money? Or was it just poorly organized and poorly managed?
Read the full article →More good news for America’s poor: Comcast bringing cheap internet to public housing residents
Comcast just announced that it has begun rolling out its low-income, high-speed Internet Essentials plan to residents of public housing.
Read the full article →Comcast testing Internet Essentials program for low-income community college students in Colorado and Illinois
Until now, the Internet Essentials program has targeted low-income families with at least one student who qualifies for the National School Lunch Program. What’s always baffled us if that students’ eligibility was cut off the day they graduated from high school — just in time to cut them off from affordable internet as they go […]
Read the full article →Great news for America’s senior citizens: Internet Essentials conducting pilot program for seniors
If everything goes well, Comcast will begin offering high-speed Internet for just $9.95 per month to senior citizens across the country. Eligible seniors will also be offered Internet-ready computers for just $150.
Read the full article →Progress reports: Updating three high tech giants plans to bring cheap internet to everyone in the world
We circle back and see what kind of progress Google, Facebook, and Space-X are making in their race to bring wireless internet to everyone in the world.
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