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

Check this out: Comcast call 1hr. ago. @ Internet Essentials #.
Me: I would like to apply for internet. But I don't have a child on the " free lunch program ". ( requirement )
Comcast: Sure, your address please.
( 20 minutes and rep. can't repeat back my address correctly)
Me: please put your supervr. on thanks.
Comcast: sure - hold please (5 minutes later)
Rep: my supervisor said.....
Me: no no no I need to speak w. your supervisor now.( 5 minutes later)
Suprvr-Aron id. # 4978: how can I help you?
Me: repeat back my address please. (he gets it right)
To end this saga of an hour; Comcast doesn't cover my area but WindStream does.
Question to PLUG: Do all ISPs have a similar Fed. program or plan they must provide for the " economically disadvantaged ", or broke folks ?
Thanks

On Jun 18, 2015 7:21 PM, "Douglas Muth" <doug.muth@gmail.com> wrote:

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:

https://www.internetessentials.com/

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

-- Doug

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