California Bill Would Require That AT&T And Comcast Make Broadband Affordable For Poor People
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schrieb am 8. Mai 2025, 16:53 zuletzt editiert von
The proposal comes after Republicans killed a federal FCC program that provided a $30 discount off the broadband bills of low-income Americans. The Republicans in question claimed they killed the popular program to save money, but a follow up study showed that the program more than paid for itself (by a factor of four) because it helped expand access to remote healthcare, employment, and education.
My state fighting a good fight. We’re flawed, but we sometimes get it right.
California Bill Would Require That AT&T And Comcast Make Broadband Affordable For Poor People
We've documented for decades how U.S. telecom is an uncompetitive mess dominated by politically powerful telecom monopolies that see no competition and effectively own Congress. As a result, the U.S. telecom and broadband market is an uncompetitive mess, with Americans still seeing higher prices, slower speeds, spottier access, and worse customer service than in many…
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The proposal comes after Republicans killed a federal FCC program that provided a $30 discount off the broadband bills of low-income Americans. The Republicans in question claimed they killed the popular program to save money, but a follow up study showed that the program more than paid for itself (by a factor of four) because it helped expand access to remote healthcare, employment, and education.
My state fighting a good fight. We’re flawed, but we sometimes get it right.
California Bill Would Require That AT&T And Comcast Make Broadband Affordable For Poor People
We've documented for decades how U.S. telecom is an uncompetitive mess dominated by politically powerful telecom monopolies that see no competition and effectively own Congress. As a result, the U.S. telecom and broadband market is an uncompetitive mess, with Americans still seeing higher prices, slower speeds, spottier access, and worse customer service than in many…
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schrieb am 8. Mai 2025, 18:05 zuletzt editiert vonwhen I was working in the residential ISP space some years ago during the FCC credits, we had some basic plans (25/3Mbit, 35/5Mbit) that were entirely or mostly covered by that discount program. it's by no means a flashy number but it gave thousands of our customers access to broadband, and most of them lost the ability to afford it as soon as the discount ended. go California, I hope this works out because it's super important for everyone to have broadband
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The proposal comes after Republicans killed a federal FCC program that provided a $30 discount off the broadband bills of low-income Americans. The Republicans in question claimed they killed the popular program to save money, but a follow up study showed that the program more than paid for itself (by a factor of four) because it helped expand access to remote healthcare, employment, and education.
My state fighting a good fight. We’re flawed, but we sometimes get it right.
California Bill Would Require That AT&T And Comcast Make Broadband Affordable For Poor People
We've documented for decades how U.S. telecom is an uncompetitive mess dominated by politically powerful telecom monopolies that see no competition and effectively own Congress. As a result, the U.S. telecom and broadband market is an uncompetitive mess, with Americans still seeing higher prices, slower speeds, spottier access, and worse customer service than in many…
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schrieb am 8. Mai 2025, 19:00 zuletzt editiert vonPoor people deserve bad customer service, too!
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Poor people deserve bad customer service, too!
schrieb am 8. Mai 2025, 19:26 zuletzt editiert vonPoor people deserve bad customer service, too!
why did you choose to add "too" to the end of the sentence, instead of writing "poor people too deserve …"?
Is it a visual choice? Are you trying to balance "O"s as in oo………oo
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Poor people deserve bad customer service, too!
why did you choose to add "too" to the end of the sentence, instead of writing "poor people too deserve …"?
Is it a visual choice? Are you trying to balance "O"s as in oo………oo
schrieb am 8. Mai 2025, 21:05 zuletzt editiert vonYou're not wrong. People tend to tune me out when I speak that formally, and I made a decision a long time ago to always write how I speak.
That being said, you should hear my corrected version of Land of Confusion.
This is the world in which we live
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The proposal comes after Republicans killed a federal FCC program that provided a $30 discount off the broadband bills of low-income Americans. The Republicans in question claimed they killed the popular program to save money, but a follow up study showed that the program more than paid for itself (by a factor of four) because it helped expand access to remote healthcare, employment, and education.
My state fighting a good fight. We’re flawed, but we sometimes get it right.
California Bill Would Require That AT&T And Comcast Make Broadband Affordable For Poor People
We've documented for decades how U.S. telecom is an uncompetitive mess dominated by politically powerful telecom monopolies that see no competition and effectively own Congress. As a result, the U.S. telecom and broadband market is an uncompetitive mess, with Americans still seeing higher prices, slower speeds, spottier access, and worse customer service than in many…
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schrieb am 8. Mai 2025, 22:59 zuletzt editiert von armand1@lemmy.world 5. Dez. 2025, 00:31$30 discount on broadband bills
It's wild that it costs much above $30 at all for you guys. In the UK 100Mbps starts at £22/m (~$30) and I'm comfortably at 500mbps at around £35/m ($45) and we've got pretty bad deals compared to other European countries!
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The proposal comes after Republicans killed a federal FCC program that provided a $30 discount off the broadband bills of low-income Americans. The Republicans in question claimed they killed the popular program to save money, but a follow up study showed that the program more than paid for itself (by a factor of four) because it helped expand access to remote healthcare, employment, and education.
My state fighting a good fight. We’re flawed, but we sometimes get it right.
California Bill Would Require That AT&T And Comcast Make Broadband Affordable For Poor People
We've documented for decades how U.S. telecom is an uncompetitive mess dominated by politically powerful telecom monopolies that see no competition and effectively own Congress. As a result, the U.S. telecom and broadband market is an uncompetitive mess, with Americans still seeing higher prices, slower speeds, spottier access, and worse customer service than in many…
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schrieb am 9. Mai 2025, 10:29 zuletzt editiert vonwatch gavin veto it
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watch gavin veto it
schrieb am 9. Mai 2025, 21:20 zuletzt editiert vonYou know he will, or their own party will kill it so it doesn't pass
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The proposal comes after Republicans killed a federal FCC program that provided a $30 discount off the broadband bills of low-income Americans. The Republicans in question claimed they killed the popular program to save money, but a follow up study showed that the program more than paid for itself (by a factor of four) because it helped expand access to remote healthcare, employment, and education.
My state fighting a good fight. We’re flawed, but we sometimes get it right.
California Bill Would Require That AT&T And Comcast Make Broadband Affordable For Poor People
We've documented for decades how U.S. telecom is an uncompetitive mess dominated by politically powerful telecom monopolies that see no competition and effectively own Congress. As a result, the U.S. telecom and broadband market is an uncompetitive mess, with Americans still seeing higher prices, slower speeds, spottier access, and worse customer service than in many…
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schrieb am 10. Mai 2025, 05:36 zuletzt editiert vonInternet access should be a utility like electricity and water until all three, along with housing, medicine, and food, can be free to all.
