School and Community leaders are urging the FCC that the Lifeline Assistance program be amended create subsidies to help low-income Americans pay for high-speed broadband internet access in addition to the free government cell phone service.
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It’s about time: Comcast develops pilot program to bring high-speed internet to low-income seniors
Comcast is addressing one of the Internet Essential program’s biggest shortcomings by conducting a pilot program designed to bring Internet Essentials to low-income senior citizens.
Read the full article →Twice as nice: Comcast doubles the speed of low-income Internet Essentials program
Internet Essentials has made their outstanding program even better by doubling its speed from 5 Megabytes per second to 10 Mbps., and giving customers a free wireless router.
Read the full article →Google bringing cheap internet to an entire country. Can the US be far behind?
Google, the high tech giant best known for its search engine, just announced that it has signed a contract to deliver high speed internet access to an entire country — Sri Lanka, an Indian Ocean island nation approximately 900 miles off the coast of India.
Read the full article →Big news for America’s poor: AT&T to offer low-cost, high-speed internet starting at $5/month
AT&T will be required to offer high-speed internet service for perhaps as little as $5-10 per month to any consumer who qualifies for food stamps (also known as SNAP).
Read the full article →Huge cheap internet news: President Obama bringing high-speed broadband to low-income Americans
President Obama has announced a pilot program to bring high-speed broadband internet service to low-income households in public housing.
Read the full article →When will the Federal Communications Commission finally approve Lifeline internet?
The FCC has done a whole lot of talking about Lifeline Broadband, but has taken precious little action to make it actually happen.
Read the full article →Municipal wi-fi news: Buffalo building free public wifi network for its downtown corridor
Buffalo, New York state’s second largest city and America’s 69th largest, is joining the parade of progress by building a public wi-fi network that will be available free to residents and visitors to its downtown corridor.
Read the full article →Low-income Chattanooga residents can now get super-fast cheap internet from city-owned utility
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.
Read the full article →Is the FCC finally ready to announce its long-awaited Lifeline Broadband program?
It appears that the Federal Communications Commission is finally on the verge of overhauling the Lifeline Assistance program, and it is widely anticipated that one of the biggest changes will be to include Lifeline Broadband
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