The FCC redirected $4.5 billion to create the Connect America Fund, a program designed to bring high-speed broadband internet access to the poor.
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FCC finally approves “Lifeline” internet for America’s needy
It seems like they’ve been looking into it, studying it, debating it, and arguing about it for years. But the Federal Communications Commission last Tuesday finally did what we’ve been urging it to do for many months –- it approved an affordable internet-for-the-poor program similar to Lifeline, its existing free government cell phone program. To […]
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The Federal Communications Commission is getting with the times. It’s finally figured out that landline telephones are yesterday’s technology. As a result, it has approved $4.5 billion to bring broadband Internet to needy and rural Americans. The plan is called Connect America.
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