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

Douglas Muth on 18 Jun 2015 16:21:24 -0700

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

From: Douglas Muth <doug.muth@gmail.com>
To: "Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List" <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
Subject: Re: [PLUG] FCC to subsidize broadband for low income households
Date: 2015年6月18日 19:20:39 -0400
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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

Douglas T. Muth * Philadelphia, PA, USA
http://www.dmuth.org/

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