Re: AT&T, Comcast, Verizon, Others Commit to Low-Income Broadband Program

[Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists () gmail com>]

On Mon, May 9, 2022 at 10:32 AM Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com> wrote:

> AT&T, Comcast, Verizon, Others Commit to Low-Income Broadband Program
> Providers will help offer high-speed internet to millions of households
> under the infrastructure law
>
>
> https://www.wsj.com/articles/internet-providers-commit-to-low-income-broadband-program-under-infrastructure-law-11652086801
>
>
> Waiting to see what the catch-22 is.  In the past, large providers have
> imposed various dark patterns which raised the cost, and made discount
> programs difficult to find.  Instead directing people to more expensive
> services or requiring extra costs.
One would hope[*] that the shame caused by various articles showing
children sitting outside their schools to
use wifi instead of home wifi/internet coupled with school systems
getting/donating/using mifi-equivalent units
to dis-advantaged folks would make this less likely to happen.

-chris
* "Hope is not a strategy" :(

Previous 2021 program
> https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/05/verizon-uses-fcc-pandemic-subsidy-to-upsell-customers-to-pricier-plans/