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The Municipal Broadband Solution – The American Prospect

2024-03-19 12:06 AM by Tyler Fields

In the coming weeks, Phyllis Jackson will have a difficult choice to make: home internet service or medicine? “If it goes away, it would add a hardship for me,” Jackson says of the expiring Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP), a key part of a national “Internet for All” initiative that offers low-income households a $30 monthly …

How Monopolies and Maps Are Killing ‘Internet for All’

2023-12-06 03:13 AM by Tyler Fields

The flatlands of Oakland is where the city’s digital divide is most pronounced. From West Oakland all the way into deep East Oakland, areas with the highest concentration of low-income residents, an estimated 37,000 households do not have high-quality access to the internet. While nearby Silicon Valley money has made the price of real estate …