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FCC wants to offer low-income households a $9 monthly broadband subsidy

Mar09
by on March 9, 2016 at 6:41 am
Posted In: Around the Web, broadband, fcc, Federal Communications Commission, Subsidy, Tom Wheeler

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In an effort to make broadband more easily accessible and affordable in the US, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) hopes to offer a subsidy of $9.25 a month to the poor, reports The New York Times. The agency will issue a proposal to its members to approve the plan for low-income households as part of an overhaul of Lifeline, its $2 billion phone subsidy program that will go to vote on March 31. With the average price of broadband costing about $52.50 per month in urban areas, many in the US could stand to benefit from the FCC’s initiative. The…

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