Saturday, May 30, 2015

Subsidized Broadband: FCC Chairman Plans to Expand ‘Obama Phone’ Program to Internet

Via Cousin Bill


Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Tom Wheeler announced on Thursday that he intends to expand Lifeline, popularly known as the “Obama Phone” program, to the Internet.

“I am circulating new proposals to “reboot” Lifeline for the Internet age,” Wheeler wrote in a blog post on the FCC’s Website. He said the reboot would include “establishing minimum standards of service for voice and broadband,” in addition to subsidies for low-income consumers.

Lifeline is a government benefit program that provides a monthly subsidy of $9.95 on telephone service for those at or below 135 percent of the poverty line so they can connect to the nation's communications networks, find jobs, access health care services, connect with family and their children's schools, and call for help in an emergency.

More @ CNS News

8 comments:

  1. How much is that going to cost tax payers, you parasites.

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  2. Look what else the scum want taxpayers to pay. As far as I am concerned you
    can live with it; you allowed the destruction while the police were told to stand down
    and to tolerate abuse:
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/baltimore-politicians-turn-to-white-house-for-funding/2015/05/20/ae5fe26a-ff05-11e4-8b6c-0dcce21e223d_story.html?wprss=rss_politics


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    1. Thanks and I read that they sent the first bill to FEMA.

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  3. Great......another gift to the oxygen thieves. They are going to double the cost of internet access for those who work so they can give it for free to the useless POS
    animals on welfare.

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  4. Biden's son, age 46 died of brain cancer. Seemed like a stand-up guy.
    Nothing to do with anything here but thought you would like to know.
    http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2015/05/30/vice-president-joe-bidens-son-beau-biden-dies-from-brain-cancer/

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