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, ...

WASHINGTON - More than 5 million U.S. households have enrolled in the country’s Emergency Broadband Benefit Program since its inception in May 2021, according to the Federal Communications Commission.

Sources: USAC ACP Enrollment and Claims Tracker; household counts and 200% poverty estimates from the 2017-2022 American Community Survey; state-level ACP participation factors from Galperin (2021).

More than three years after the launch of a signature infrastructure program to build out broadband across the nation, projects have still not broken ground as the program navigates a new presidential ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. James Martin/CNET Finding low-cost internet is becoming increasingly more difficult with rising prices and decreased support for ...