Finding low-cost internet is becoming increasingly more difficult with rising prices and decreased support for low-income families. The Affordable Connectivity Program was shuttered in June 2024, ...

The Federal Lifeline Assistance Program originally only provided discounts on traditional landline phone service. Once the Lifeline program was updated to include wireless phone service in 2005, many ...

Thursday, the FCC adopted an order and further notice of proposed rulemaking (referred to below as “Order and FNPRM”) that will revise some aspects of the Lifeline program and proposes to make even ...

In late June, CTIA (a trade association for the wireless communications industry) and a cluster of public interest groups petitioned the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to delay implementation ...

The Federal Lifeline Assistance Program's benefits extend to those who are experiencing temporary financial hardship or those who live on a low fixed income. One of the most common groups that the ...

EL SEGUNDO, Calif., June 17, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Gen Mobile, a leading provider of prepaid wireless phone service, today announced the launch of its federal Lifeline program, which provides a monthly ...

In 2016, the FCC adopted its Lifeline Modernization Order, in which it introduced Lifeline subsidies for the provision of broadband services, and imposed graduated minimum service standards for ...

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai recently announced a couple of changes to the Lifeline program, which supplies phone and broadband services to people without the income to pay for ...

ELIGIBLE. SHANE? >> The Reporter: FELICIA, IT'S A $3.2 BILLION FEDERAL PROGRAM SET ASIDE TO HELP PEOPLE WHO MAYBE HAVE LOST THEIR JOB OR WHO MAY BE STRUGGLING DURING THE PANDEMIC GET BACK ON THEIR ...

Ajit Pai can usually count on support from broadband industry lobbyists and conservative think tanks each time he announces a new policy. But Pai’s proposal to limit broadband choices for poor people ...