Back in 2011, Comcast wanted to ease federal approval of its merger with NBC Universal, so it promised to offer Internet access at a rate affordable to low-income families. The program, called Internet Essentials, helped show regulators that Comcasts corporate deal was in the public interest (and it made for good public relations, too). Now Comcast wants to buy Time Warner, a merger that would give the cable and broadband giant control of about 40 percent of U.S. Internet users. This new merger begs the question — what happened to Internet Essentials? There are 7.2 million low-income people in Comcasts service area, of those, only 2.6 million have a child who is eligible for the federal school lunch program (one of the programs requirements). Only 12 percent of that 2.6 million, or 300,000 participants, have signed up for the program since it was launched.
Posted on: Wed, 28 May 2014 20:21:02 +0000
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