FCC orders Emergency Broadband Benefit program targeting low-income households

1 March, 2021

The FCC adopted an order for an Emergency Broadband Benefit program for low-income households that will last only six months past the U.S. COVID emergency or until demand outstrips the $3.2 billion allotted by Congress under last December’s Congressional Appropriations Act of 2021. 

Getting the right subsidy structure in place is a national policy issue, AT&T CEO John Stankey said during a recent policy forum. He wants incentives that give low-income customers better access to fixed broadband to 

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