Credit: Associated Press
Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski on Monday announced moves to expand access to high-speed internet.
“With our children learning remotely, many people working from home, and critical services like medical appointments moving online, we have been reminded of our responsibility to ensure that every resident has access to affordable high-speed internet service,” Olszewski said in a statement. “Our team has taken a number of important steps to ensure equitable access so that our residents don’t fall behind and we will continue to innovate in order to further expand service across our County.”
Qualifying low-income residents already have access to Comcast s $9.95 per month Internet Essentials program, The county will use federal coronavirus relief funding to sponsor six months of Internet Essentials service for all of the nearly 11,000 county subscrib