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(IT&E) — A monthly discount for Internet and Data-only plans is now available at IT&E to assist those who have been negatively impacted financially due to the pandemic. The discount is offered through the Emergency Broadband Benefit or EBB Program launched by the Federal Communications Commission to provide eligible households and individuals with a $50 credit per month for broadband and a one-time credit of $100 to purchase one tablet. The $50 credit can be used for IT&E’s 50Mbps and...

May 11, 2021 | 11:54 AM Washington, D.C. – Beginning tomorrow, May 12, low-income households can fill out an online application for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Emergency Broadband Benefit Program. This is not a state,  county, or city-operated program and local governments have nothing to do with the qualifying or application process. The program will end when the fund runs out of money, or six months after the Department of Health and Human Services declares an end to th...

Beth Wilkes: Wheeling’s Quiet Kindness Hero In 1968 a young lady named Beth Wilkes boarded a bus from Buffalo, New York destined for Wheeling, West Virginia — a city she would call home for the next 50 plus years. Beth, a recent graduate of Nazareth College in Rochester and daughter of pediatrician Dr. Frederick B. Wilkes and nurse Elizabeth M. Wilkes, was sent to Wheeling on assignment through the Americorps’ Volunteer in Service to America (VISTA) Program. Beth was a slight, quiet woma...

FCC sets May 12 launch date for Emergency Broadband Benefit Special to The News TOPEKA – Beginning May 12, Kansans can apply for the Federal Communication Commission’s $3.2 billion Emergency Broadband Benefit. The Benefit provides a discount of up to $50 per month towards broadband service for eligible households and up to $75 per month for households on Tribal lands. The discounts will be available until all funding is exhausted or six months after the Department of Health and Human Servi...

As if it were yesterday, I remember when my mother learned to drive. By today’s standards, she would be a unicorn, never behind the wheel until I was a preteen and my brother was a toddler. I remember thinking, “Why does my mom need to drive? My dad takes us on vacation, he picks me up from school. . .what else could there be?” It turns out, my mother learning to drive opened the door to all that I am today. I was taken for a ride in more ways than one when my mother threw seatbelts on us...

Text message history (from/to) Phone carrier account number needed for porting Email address Last four digits of the associated payment card Goodin confirmed that since at least December 2020, anyone who downloaded the app and has a valid telephone number of a customer could access these data without a password. “That’s right—no password or anything else required.” Goodin contacted Q Link about the security snafu (after others had done so previously) with a dozen messages, but got no re...

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New Douglas, Washville get faster internet Feb. 24, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail NEW DOUGLAS — Wisper ISP, LLC has upgraded its internet equipment for New Douglas and Walshville to offer speeds up to 100 Mbps. The high speed Wisper equipment is on the New Douglas water tower at 34 New Douglas Ave., Sorento, and the water tower at 3026 Schoeny Trail in Walshville. The fixed wireless technology uses elevated structures to reach a customer’s home. Current capabilities require the equipment on a c...

Affordable broadband is finally within reach Harin Contractor and Christopher Ali, opinion contributors © Getty Images Affordable broadband is finally within reach At the end of 2020, Congress passed the Consolidated Appropriations Act, a $1.4 trillion budget that included the largest public investment in broadband since the 2009 Recovery Act. Part of this $7 billion injection into broadband was the Emergency Broadband Benefit Program, a $3.2 billion program to be managed by ...

Several U.S. senators introduced new legislation today that would allow survivors of domestic violence and other crimes to separate from their abusers’ shared cell phone plans.