Comcast's $9.99 Internet for low-income families goes nation

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Comcast's $9.99 Internet for low-income families goes nation

Post by Pigeon » Wed Sep 21, 2011 5:02 pm

Comcast's $9.99 Internet for low-income families goes nationwide
by Nate Anderson | Published September 20, 2011 1:55 PM Last updated September 20, 2011 3:24 PM

Comcast rolled out its Internet Essentials program nationwide today, offering low-income families in its service territory $10/month Internet connections and access to $150 computers.

Any family with at least one child who qualifies for the free lunch program at public schools can subscribe to a low-speed (1.5Mbps) Comcast Internet connection for $9.95 a month. Comcast guarantees that it won't raise the price and offers the plan without equipment rental or activation fees. Subscribers also cannot have "an overdue Comcast bill or unreturned equipment," and they can't have had Comcast Internet in the last 90 days.

Comcast has agreed to sign up families to the program for at least three years, and it also promises to provide free Internet and computer training to those who need it.

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Here in Rick Perry's state, home of the minimum wage job, people living outside a large town have to use dial up to the internet. I am really glad the phone company ran fiber every where but keeps analog on both ends.

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Re: Comcast's $9.99 Internet for low-income families goes na

Post by Egg » Wed Sep 21, 2011 5:12 pm

That's actually a pretty good deal.

Socialists.


If God wanted you to have high speed He would have told Rick Perry.


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