Comcast CYA Doesn’t Mask Contradictions and Poor Outreach

Community Organizing Ideas and Issues

New Orleans  The combined meetings and negotiations with Comcast representatives about their “internet essentials” program to provide low cost access and computers to lower income families seems to have finally provoked the company into putting out some numbers on their performance.  That’s the good news.   Reading the numbers is the bad news. No wonder our …

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More Heat on Comcast without Much Light from FCC

Community Organizing Ideas and Issues Labor Organizing

New Orleans    When a delegation of members from ACTION United showed up with baloney sandwiches at the Pittsburgh City Council meeting, the Council asked them to address the body and expressed concern with them about the difficulty that low income families are having making Comcast’s promises of greater access to the Internet a reality.  The …

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