mvarioSep 11, 2024

GOP Holds Show Hearing To Complain About Providing Affordable Broadband To Poor People | Techdirt

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/09/11/gop-holds-show-hearing-to-complain-about-providing-affordable-broadband-to-poor-people/

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GOP Holds Show Hearing To Complain About Providing Affordable Broadband To Poor People

Over the next six months, states are poised to receive more than $42.5 billion in taxpayer subsidies to help fund broadband rollouts around the country. A lot of this money is getting dumped into t…

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mvarioAug 28, 2024

Press Struggles To Explain How The GOP Killed A Popular Broadband Discount Program, Driving Millions Of Poor Americans Off The Internet | Techdirt

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/08/28/press-struggles-to-explain-how-the-gop-killed-a-popular-broadband-discount-program-driving-millions-of-poor-americans-off-the-internet/

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Press Struggles To Explain How The GOP Killed A Popular Broadband Discount Program, Driving Millions Of Poor Americans Off The Internet

The FCC’s Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP), part of the 2021 infrastructure bill, provided 23+ million low-income households a $30 broadband discount every month. But the roughly 60 …

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