AT&T (Again) Caught Cheating Federal Subsidy Program For Poor People

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: a giant U.S. telecom monopoly has been ripping off a federal program designed to help the country’s low income residents. AT&T last week qui…

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Study: 76% Of U.S. Residents Want Government To Do Something About Soaring Broadband Prices

A new U.S. News And World Report survey of 2,500 Americans across the five most populous U.S. states (PA, TX, NY, CA, and FL) found that U.S. broadband prices continue to soar for most users. Most …

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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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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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Ted Cruz Proudly Pledges To Kill Last Ditch Funding Effort For Popular Low-Income Broadband Program

We just noted how several Trumplican lawmakers recently killed a popular program that helped deliver a $30 discount off of the broadband bills of low income Americans. The FCC’s Affordable Ca…

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Struggling Americans Drop Internet Access After GOP Kills Low-Income Broadband Program | Techdirt

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/08/01/struggling-americans-drop-internet-access-after-gop-kills-low-income-broadband-program/

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Struggling Americans Drop Internet Access After GOP Kills Low-Income Broadband Program

Back in March we noted how the GOP killed a popular program (the Affordable Connectivity Program, or ACP) that provided a $30 discount off of low-income users’ broadband bills. At the time, 2…

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Low-income homes drop Internet service after Congress kills discount program | Ars Technica

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/07/low-income-homes-drop-internet-service-after-congress-kills-discount-program/

> Charter CEO says "customers' ability to pay" a concern after $30 discounts end.

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Low-income homes drop Internet service after Congress kills discount program

Charter CEO says "customers' ability to pay" a concern after $30 discounts end.

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Trumplicans ‘Successfully’ Kill Program That Helped Poor Americans Afford Broadband | Techdirt

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/06/04/trumplicans-successfully-kill-program-that-helped-poor-americans-afford-broadband/

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Trumplicans ‘Successfully’ Kill Program That Helped Poor Americans Afford Broadband

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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Affordable Connectivity Program Subsidy Money Runs Out

People 50 and older head 45% of households taking part

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Big Telecom Is Once Again Using Fake Consumer Groups To Attack Community Owned Broadband Networks

Annoyed by the kind of expensive, shitty, slow, and spotty broadband access caused by limited competition and monopoly power, hundreds of U.S. communities have been building their own broadband net…

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