Mailing List Archive: AT&T, Comcast, Verizon, Others Commit to Low-Income Broadband Program

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

May 9, 2022, 7:32 AM

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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.

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

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

morrowc.lists at gmail

May 9, 2022, 3:46 PM

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

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> 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/
>
>

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

davidbass570 at gmail

May 10, 2022, 5:29 AM

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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:

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>
> 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/
>>
>>