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ISPs must accept gov't subsidy on all plans:
Less than a year after Verizon and other ISPs forced users to switch plans in order to get government-funded discounts, a new federal program will prevent such upselling by requiring ISPs to let customers obtain subsidies on any Internet plan.
With last year's $50-per-month Emergency Broadband Benefit that was created by Congress, the Federal Communications Commission let ISPs participate in the program as long as they offered the discount on at least one service plan. The FCC said it did so to encourage participation by providers, but some major ISPs drastically limited the subsidy-eligible plans—forcing users to switch to plans that could be more expensive in order to get a temporary discount.
Congress subsequently created a replacement program that will offer $30 monthly subsidies to people with low incomes. The program also specified that ISPs "shall allow an eligible household to apply the affordable connectivity benefit to any Internet service offering of the participating provider at the same terms available to households that are not eligible households." The FCC still has to make rules for implementing the new Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP), but that requirement prevented the FCC from using the same one-plan rule that helped ISPs use the program as an upselling opportunity.
ISPs urged FCC to exclude "legacy" plans.
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(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 12, @06:46PM
This is just more of the same from The International Jew and their Shabbos Goy race traitors. Take tax money from gullible, Jewsus and JewMurica-loving Whites and give it to "the disadvantaged". IOW, paying for the internet for anyone pitiful enough to beg for it. Niggers (Euro and Classic varieties) and Mestizo (and other) invaders. This also means everybody else that has service with the ISP probably gets to make up the difference, as the ISP probably just pockets any gov subsidy. Fuck the federal government and anyone who funds it.