The SandyNet, FTTH gigabit network is up and running in the suburb of Sandy, OR, and is already looking toward future expansion. Officials say they have plans to expand the network until it reaches every home in the city (a total of more than 4,000 homes).
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How long until Google begins offering cheap internet service to the world?
We’re hoping Google’s Project Loon will bring good news to low-income Americans who are forced to live with expensive internet, or with no internet at all.
Read the full article →Digital Divide: Do your kids suffer from the homework gap?
There is a huge, gaping difference found between high-speed broadband service in the homes of low-income households and all other American homes. It’s called the Homework Gap.
Read the full article →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 →Huge news from Washington, DC: FCC strikes down state laws against municipal broadband networks
The Federal Communications Commission announced today that it had done as many (including those of us at CheapInternet.com) wanted, and struck down an array of state and local laws that inhibit or prohibit municipal broadband networks.
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 →Government idiocy in action: FCC mandates higher broadband speeds for everyone
Just when we thought the FCC was developing a rational plan to bring affordable, high-speed broadband to the financially disadvantaged who need it most, they screw it up. Royally.
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