Douglas Muth on 18 Jun 2015 16:21:24 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] FCC to subsidize broadband for low income households


On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 7:07 PM, Keith C. Perry <kperry@daotechnologies.com> wrote:
I think this came up after PLUG North a couple of meetings ago.

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/15/06/18/2141208/fcc-votes-to-subsidize-broadband-connections-for-low-income-households?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed


This is pretty cool, and sounds like it might go hand-in-hand with the low-cost Internet that Comcast offers to financially disadvantaged households: 



When I grew up, it was school lunches.  Now, it's Internet connectivity.  How times have changed. :-)

-- Doug


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