Finding low-cost internet is becoming increasingly more difficult with rising prices and decreased support for low-income families. The Affordable Connectivity Program was shuttered in June 2024, ...

Federal telecommunications assists millions of American households each year through the Lifeline internet and phone discount program, which offers much-needed connectivity support to families with ...

Commissioners voted along party lines to expand a phone-service subsidy program for low-income Americans that would let them instead spend the money on broadband connections. “At a time when America ...

A day before the California Public Utilities Commission was to vote on a rule that would have shrunken subsidies low-income residents use for phone and internet services, officials pulled the item ...

Low-income households in Vermont may be eligible for a federal program that provides a $9.25 monthly discount on phone or internet service. Under the rules of the program you can apply the discount to ...

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai recently announced a couple of changes to the Lifeline program, which supplies phone and broadband services to people without the income to pay for ...

If you can’t travel to be with family and friends at the holidays, phone and video calls are the next best thing. When you’re watching a niece or nephew open up presents via Skype, it’s easy to take ...

FCC chairman Ajit Pai is proposing to scale down the Lifeline program, which offers subsidies for internet and phone service to low-income Americans. The plan would effectively cut affordable internet ...

Pai's proposed changes to the Lifeline program, which currently serves 12 million Americans by providing subsidized phone and internet service, would cut service to about 70 percent, or 8 million, of ...