On Mon, May 9, 2022 at 10:32 AM Sean Donelan <s...@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/ > >
