Back and Forth with Comcast and Small Progress to Date

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New Orleans   Our coalition has now sent a letter to the FCC asking for hearings and meetings in Houston and Philadelphia to try to focus Comcast on actually delivering on the requirements that it provide low cost Internet access to lower income families in its service areas. Comcast’s strategy is clear.  They don’t want to do …

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Comcast CYA Doesn’t Mask Contradictions and Poor Outreach

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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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