The California Emerging Technology Fund (CETF) and 20...
The California Emerging Technology Fund (CETF) and 20 other California nonprofits urged the FCC in a joint filing Tuesday to “hold Comcast accountable to improve its affordable home Internet program and expand the service to include all low-income residents” as…
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the FCC reviews the proposed Comcast/Time Warner Cable (TWC) merger. The groups urged the FCC to require Comcast to make all low-income households eligible for its Internet Essentials program instead of just those with schoolchildren. Comcast should also set goals for raising the percentage of eligible households that hold Internet Essentials subscriptions and coordinate with states that are major Comcast/TWC markets on closing the digital divide, the groups said. Only 11 percent of eligible households in California are currently Internet Essentials subscribers, the groups said. The FCC should also require Comcast to establish an advisory oversight committee on the Internet Essentials program and require Comcast to offer stand-alone Internet access at a reasonable rate, the groups said (http://bit.ly/WETP76).