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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The ACP ran out of funds, but some low-income internet options remain. On the other hand, some ISPs chose to include low-cost ...

President Trump denounced the Biden-era Digital Equity Act as “woke handouts based on race,” raging in a social media post against a broad effort to improve high-speed internet access. By Chris ...

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 ...

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 ...

A pandemic-era program designed to ensure all Americans can access the internet regardless of their income level is on the verge of ending unless Congress acts. U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone was joined by ...