The Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) is a federal benefit designed to make sure people can get and stay online. Roughly 40% of American households qualify for ACP, which means there’s a good ...

Too often Congress is addicted to the drama of the last-minute deal. No matter how easy the decision before them, our national legislators like to wait until it’s almost too late before they do their ...

A program that helped close the digital divide in the U.S. has come to an end. The Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) expired Tuesday night. ACP was a federal benefit through the FCC aimed at lower ...

This past winter, one of us, Alister, was speaking with the daughter of an elderly patient at a community health center in Boston. Her mother had recently been admitted to a local hospital for ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The Affordable Connectivity Program, which subsidizes internet access for low-income households, is set to run ...

Last week, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) stopped accepting applications for the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP), a pandemic-era discount for qualified low-income households to ...

Every week, Cynthia George connects with her granddaughter and great-grandson on video calls. The 71-year-old retiree reads the news on her MSN homepage and googles how to fight the bugs coming from ...

Albemarle County has launched a program that will make it easier for lower-income households to get access to broadband. The Affordable Connectivity Program Bridge Program is a joint effort of the ...