Free Broadband For NYC Public Housing?

Posted by timothy on Saturday November 1, 2014 @06:40AM from the human-righteous dept.

First time accepted submitter nomad63 (686331) writes "Earlier this week, the NY Times reported that a group of city and leaders, with NYC public advocate Letitia James at the helm, are pushing for a commitment from Comcast to provide free broadband to the city's public housing and to extend its low-cost Internet Essentials plan (which was created as a condition of the NBC deal). While New York City might be the center of finance and commerce in the U.S., about 1/3 of households don't have an Internet connection, highlighting the huge "digital divide" between the city's wealthy residents and those who can't afford broadband service.In addition to the free service for public housing, the group wants gratis access at shelters for the city's homeless and its victims of domestic violence."

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Re:buh by volovski · 2014-11-01 08:14 · Score: -1, Offtopic

NYC could do this ISP Tax federally like they did with Obamacare DemCARE ACA. 2500 pages of laws they did not read. . How do you handle 11-34 million UNDOCUMENTED workers as Dems call them ? Do they get free ISP too ? OCare DemCare ? DemPhones ?