FCC Chairwoman Mignon Clyburn and Rep. Doris Matsui recently joined forces to promote affordable high speed internet service for needy Americans.
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Nearly 20 million rural Americans still can’t get high speed internet
According to a new report from the federal government, access to high speed internet is spreading rapidly, but it’s still unavailable at any cost to nearly 20 million mostly rural Americans.
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Free Government Internet Phones
In the noble quest to bridge the digital divide and get all Americans online, the FCC will be soon expanding the Lifeline program to provide internet-enabled smartphones that come with a mobile internet
Read the full article →Debate heats up: Are Internet Essentials and Internet Basics really just government programs?
There’s no doubt that both sides of the “Are Internet Essentials and Internet Basics government programs” question are firmly entrenched and unwilling to give an inch.
Read the full article →Feds join coalition to promote cheap government internet program
Federal Communications Chairman Julius Genachowski and Housing & Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan have announced that HUD is adding its support to Connect2Compete
Read the full article →FCC chickens out, now says it won’t propose new tax to subsidize cheap government internet service
The same FCC commissioners who last week enthusiastically supported a new tax to subsidize cheap broadband service for the nation’s needy now deny that they ever supported it.
Read the full article →FCC develops plan to raise more money to support cheap internet service for the poor
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.
Read the full article →Comcast caves in to FCC and protesters, agrees to market cheap internet program, Internet Essentials, more aggressively
Cable TV giant Comcast has caved in to demands from the Federal Communications Commission and protesters that the company more aggressively market its cheap government broadband internet services, “Internet Essentials.” Back in January 2011, Comcast agreed to “visibly offer and actively market” an inexpensive internet program in order to win FCC approval of its controversial […]
Read the full article →FCC sponsors $25 million contest to help low income Americans get cheap internet
The FCC will use $25 million it saved eliminating fraud and waste from the free government cell phone program and use to pick pilot programs that can best give cheap internet to low income Americans.
Read the full article →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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