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.
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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 […]
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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.
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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 […]
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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