FCC must start winding down low-income program as Congress fails to add money.

The Federal Communications Commission is about to start winding down a program that gives $30 monthly broadband discounts to people with low incomes, and says it will have to complete the shutdown by May if Congress doesn’t provide more funding.

  • ono@lemmy.caEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I’m completely for shutting down the affordable connectivity program

    The ISPs should have to provide the service at a minimal rate to same said families and also offer 100/100 minimum service to anyone

    Maybe reverse the order of those ideas, so as not to make the lives of people who are already struggling even harder.

    in the regions they operate.

    ISPs would then have an incentive to avoid operating in poor neighborhoods. Mitigating that could be tough, given that internet service deployments are already patchy in many places.

    Another approach might be municipal broadband, which big ISPs have been lobbying against for ages, often successfully.