<div dir="auto">There’s a new one starting up based out of Atlanta with the goal of doing addressing the same thing called Culture Wireless Business.  </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Will be interesting to see how this all plays out. </div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, May 9, 2022 at 6:47 PM Christopher Morrow <<a href="mailto:morrowc.lists@gmail.com">morrowc.lists@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, May 9, 2022 at 10:32 AM Sean Donelan <<a href="mailto:sean@donelan.com" target="_blank">sean@donelan.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><br>
AT&T, Comcast, Verizon, Others Commit to Low-Income Broadband Program<br>
Providers will help offer high-speed internet to millions of households <br>
under the infrastructure law<br>
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<a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/internet-providers-commit-to-low-income-broadband-program-under-infrastructure-law-11652086801" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.wsj.com/articles/internet-providers-commit-to-low-income-broadband-program-under-infrastructure-law-11652086801</a><br>
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Waiting to see what the catch-22 is.  In the past, large providers have <br>
imposed various dark patterns which raised the cost, and made discount <br>
programs difficult to find.  Instead directing people to more expensive <br>
services or requiring extra costs.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>One would hope[*] that the shame caused by various articles showing children sitting outside their schools to</div><div>use wifi instead of home wifi/internet coupled with school systems getting/donating/using mifi-equivalent units</div><div>to dis-advantaged folks would make this less likely to happen.</div><div><br></div><div>-chris</div><div>* "Hope is not a strategy" :( </div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)">
Previous 2021 program <br>
<a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/05/verizon-uses-fcc-pandemic-subsidy-to-upsell-customers-to-pricier-plans/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/05/verizon-uses-fcc-pandemic-subsidy-to-upsell-customers-to-pricier-plans/</a><br>
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