One million households, four million customers. No matter how much some community advocates complain, Internet Essentials program is a huge success, and no other low-income internet plans come anywhere close to those numbers.
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Warp speed, Mr. Sulu: Comcast increases speed for Internet Essentials customers
Comcast’s low-income Internet Essentials plan are about to an very early Christmas present. The company is increasing their internet speeds by 50%.
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Finally: HUD approves internet access program for low-income seniors
Seniors in all of Comcast’s markets can now apply for the company’s Internet Essentials program to obtain internet access for $9.95 per month. It’s also offering technical training, digital literacy programs, and devices for senior citizens in those communities.
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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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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.
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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.
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