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