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FCC Proposes To Extend So-Called "Obamaphone" Program To Broadband

Posted by samzenpus on from the internet-to-the-people dept.

jfruh writes: The FCC's Lifeline program subsidizes phone service for very poor Americans; it gained notoriety under the label "Obamaphone," even though the program started under Reagan and was extended to cell phones under Clinton. Now the FCC is proposing that the program, which is funded by a fee on telecom providers, be extended to broadband, on the logic that high-speed internet is as necessary today as telephone service was a generation ago.

3 of 413 comments (clear)

  1. Re:other people's money by DogDude · · Score: 0, Troll

    It's called "society", asshole.

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    I don't respond to AC's.
  2. Re:other people's money by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Please send me more of your "society" dollars - I'll make sure they're well-spent.

  3. Re:What about us paying customers? by 0123456 · · Score: 1, Troll

    Why should I pay an additional amount so that other people can get broadband, cable TV and phones for free?

    So they'll keep voting Democrat.