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Connecting America: The National Broadband Plan is a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) plan to improve Internet access in the United States. The FCC was directed to create the plan by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 , and unveiled its plan on March 16, 2010.
The program officially ends on June 1, said the Federal Communications Commission, which administered the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) to approximately 1 in 5 households across the ...
In 2013, the Lifeline program paid out $1.8 billion in subsidies to telephone companies; reduced to $1.5 billion by 2015. [23] [24] The number of subsidy recipients was down to 12 million households by 2015. [24] This is the proposed cost and data plan for the Lifeline program reform.
Broadband.gov was a website run by the Federal Communications Commission of the United States that reports Internet access around the country. The FCC used the website to document the National Broadband Plan and its implementation, and inform the public about room for improvement by both Internet service providers and users. [1]
The Biden administration is moving to blunt the loss of an expired broadband subsidy program that helped more than 23 million families afford internet access by using money from an existing ...
Starting today, Americans who have a hard time paying for high-speed internet access can apply for discounts through a federal government program that can chop as much as $75 off monthly broadband...
The FCC derives its jurisdiction to facilitate the deployment of broadband to Americans in Section 706 in the Telecommunications act of 1996. In this section the code states that the FCC is to “encourage the deployment on a reasonable and timely basis of advanced telecommunications capability to all Americans.” [ 9 ] They currently want to ...
The official definition of “broadband” in the US has changed, regulators have announced. The minimum speed required to call a connection broadband will rise from 25Mbps to 100Mbps.