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

[David Bass <davidbass570 () gmail com>]

There’s a new one starting up based out of Atlanta with the goal of doing
addressing the same thing called Culture Wireless Business.

Will be interesting to see how this all plays out.

On Mon, May 9, 2022 at 6:47 PM Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists () gmail com>
wrote:

> 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/