New York can move ahead with a law requiring internet service providers to offer heavily discounted rates to low-income residents, a federal appeals court ruled Friday. The decision from the 2nd U.S.

The state of New York set up its own discounted internet mandate after the Affordable Connectivity Program expired in May. Joe Supan is a senior writer for CNET covering home technology, broadband, ...

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 ...

Internet service providers including Charter, Verizon and Comcast are shifting customers away from the Affordable Connectivity Program, an expired federal internet subsidy that helped low-income ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nonprofit groups like Link Health worked in health centers to sign patients and community members up for discount internet through ...

The $14.2 billion program, which went into effect in December 2021, served roughly 23 million households, two-thirds of which had either inconsistent or zero internet access prior to enrolling, ...

Almost 2 million New York households are currently struggling to gain complete access to broadband internet service due to its cost, according to a report released by the New York State Department of ...

The White House recently announced an agreement with more than a dozen internet service providers to offer $30 or cheaper monthly plans for low-income households throughout the rest of 2024.

President Joe Biden on Monday will announce that 20 of the nation's internet providers have committed to lowering costs for low-income households, a step the administration says will increase access ...

The US government says that next month it can only pay about half of what low-income Americans are eligible for under a popular federal benefits program that is running out of money — a crisis that ...

TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - Millions of low-income people are at risk of losing their internet plans or face being forced to pay hundreds of dollars more to get online. A government program called the ...