Thursday, 10 March 2016

Real Lifeline reform on tap (Blair Levin, Brookings)

REUTERS/Mike Blake - Grade four students work on laptop computers at Monarch School in San Diego, California October 8, 2013. While most of San Diego County is wired for broadband access, the Public Policy Institute of California reports 23 percent of local residents have not connected to a service. Students are going home with digital assignments, or with school-issued technology, but with no active broadband connection in the home, according to a media release.

The FCC is poised to reform a Reagan-era program designed to keep low-income Americans connected to core communications services. In Reagan’s time, this meant voice; now it means broadband.

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/the-avenue/posts/2016/03/09-lifeline-reform-broadband-levin
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