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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Comcast Using Deceptive Advertising, Bait-and-Switch
New Orleans Among other things Comcast provides internet service. As we have discussed previously, they promised to provide internet access to lower income families for $9.95 and connect the same families to a computer for $150. Comcast called the program Internet Essentials. They claim to be proud of it. We don’t know why? In Houston …
Is Cable Offer of Internet Access for Low Income Families Real?
New Orleans The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced with great fanfare a program that would supposedly reduce the “digital divide” between poorer families and the rest of the highly connected rest of the country. Sounds good, but reading the fine print on some of these deals, makes me pretty skeptical, or at least of a …