Millions of households qualify for Internet Essentials and experts expected them to sign up in droves. Much to the surprise of those experts, the program just hasn’t caught on.
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Let the debate begin: Is broadband access a civil rights issue?
According to some experts, bringing high-speed internet to every household in America — regardless of race, creed, or economic status — is one of the primary civil rights issues in America today.
Read the full article →Internet Essentials low-income internet program growing quickly
Cable giant Comcast confirms that Internet Essentials, its version of the low-income cheap internet program, is growing rapidly and exceeding its rosiest projections.
Read the full article →How to get cheap internet even if you don’t qualify for Connect2Compete
Connect2Compete has worked out a deal with a company called Freedom Pop to offer a internet access to those people who can’t find affordable internet access anywhere else.
Read the full article →You may be eligible: Internet Essentials makes major expansion
Comcast Executive Vice President David Cohen says the Internet Essentials program is expanding rapidly. And, we might add, expanding in a lot of ways that will help a lot of people.
Read the full article →You can’t please everyone: Some critics hate Comcast’s Internet Essentials program
There’s a school district in the suburbs outside Philadelphia in which the district’s superintendent has banned Internet Essentials promotional materials.
Read the full article →Eligibility expanded: Millions of additional needy Americans now eligible for cheap internet service?
According to our calculations, millions of needy Americans who had been excluded from new cheap internet access programs may now be eligible.
Read the full article →Comcast’s Internet Essentials adds free Learning Center to low-income program
Internet Essentials, by Comcast, is now bolstering it’s reduced pricing internet access for families with low-income children program with an online Learning Center.
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 →Internet Essentials $9.95 internet program expands to Miami and Delaware
Comcast, the cable TV/phone/internet giant, launched its much-awaited Internet Essentials program in Chicago in May 2011. Now the program is expanding to Miami, Florida and Delaware.
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