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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 Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) was a United States government-sponsored program that provided internet access to low-income households. [1] Several companies signed on to participate in the program, including Verizon Communications , Frontier Communications , T-Mobile , Spectrum , Cox , AT&T , Xfinity , Optimum and Comcast .
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.
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 ...
The FCC introduced its Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) at the start of 2022 to help struggling households afford the broadband they need for work, school, healthcare and more.
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 ...
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...