Chris Disher, the co-owner of a rural internet provider in Louisiana, is ready to start digging to get fast and reliable internet to some of the estimated 450,000 households and small businesses in ...

ACP subscribers will lose the subsidy as early as April, but there are other low-income internet options to explore. Joe Supan is a senior writer for CNET covering home technology, broadband, and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Friday, May 31, 2024 is the official last day of the pandemic-era Affordable Connectivity Program, which has provided up to $30 in ...

One of the features that President Joe Biden cited in his plan to bring internet to every home and business in the United States by 2030 was affordability. But an important federal program established ...

The Affordable Connectivity Program, which helped low-income Americans get online, is no more. On Friday, the US government announced the final closure of the broadly popular federal program, which ...

Stricter enrollment requirements will make it more difficult to qualify for this federally funded low-income internet program. State and local resources may help fill the gap. Joe Supan is a senior ...

The Biden administration will halt enrollment in a program that provides broadband discounts to millions of Americans as it runs low on funds and prepares to wind down in the coming months. The ...

The Affordable Connectivity Program has helped 23 million households connect to the internet at a discounted rate since it was enacted in 2021. But now the federal subsidy program is set to run out of ...

Home Wi-Fi may have seemed like a luxury not long ago. Yet now that nearly everything can — or is required to — be done online, we all need speedy internet to communicate, pay bills, take online ...

Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., introduced the 2019 Digital Equity Act. It was folded into the 2021 bipartisan infrastructure bill that Congress passed and President Joe Biden signed into law. The Digital ...

President Trump ripped former President Biden’s high-speed internet program Thursday, vowing to end what he called a “racist” and “illegal” initiative. Trump said he spoke with Commerce Secretary ...