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Comments of R Street Institute Americans rely on broadband connectivity more than ever. Whether it be a student trying to connect to a virtual class or an office trying to maintain productivity when employees must remain home, the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted just how important a reliable broadband connection has become. Fortunately, internet service providers (ISPs) in the United States have done a commendable job adapting to the new reality, ensuring networks remain functional despite a ...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: During the first week of 2021, the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC’s or Commission’s) Wireline Competition Bureau (Bureau) released two Public Notices seeking comment on the Commission’s implementation of the Emergency Broadband Benefit (EBB) Program established by the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2020 (the Act) as well as the Act’s injection of new funding to the Commission’s COVID-19 Telehealth Program fir...

Broadband services are now a right! Broadband is being defined as a need – a right – for those who allegedly can’t pay for it themselves. No one minds giving to the poor but that is not what this is. This is Marxist redistribution. The Washington Times reported that the Federal Communications Commission agreed Thursday to expand the Obamaphone, dubbed the LifeLine Program, to include high-speed Internet access. “Failing a major change in direction, the FCC is preparing to massively ex...

Dwayne Johnson created the largest layered dip in 2017. Christopher Polk/Getty Images In January 2017, Dwayne Johnson and his team set the record for the largest layered dip. Crafted in a 100-gallon fish tank, it took over five hours to craft this mega-sized tailgating classic. The dip, which weighed 540 pounds, was later donated to an organization for people who are experiencing homelessness. However, the celebrity has since been beaten out by Bushs Beans, who made a 1,087-pound dip in Januar...

Americans access the internet. the lifeline program provides discounted phone and internet service to low-income communities, but last week, the agency voted to roll back parts of the program, eliminating a subsidy for customers on tribal lands and capping total spending to less than half its current budget. the fcc says the new restrictions will fight abuse in the program. critics say it just hurts low-income consumers. all right, do you watch netflix at work or in the bathroom? according to ...

Name, would be insulting to hawaiian people. martha: so the federal communications commission is now strongly defending its $2.2 billion program that has become in, known as the obama phone program. acting ftc chair mignon clyburn firing back at conserve i was that the lifeline program is a government handout and claims president ronald reagan would actually be proud of this subsidy. listen. >> now that i have assurance, i can call our doctor. >> with assurance wireless in washington you get a f...

How easy is it to get a free cell phone from the government? the free phones are supposed to go to people who are very poor. one reporter set out to see how easy it is to abuse the lifeline program and stick you, yes you, with the phone bills to pay for it. the national reviews jillian melcher is here to talk about it. >> good evening. >> were you able to get a free phone? >> not only that. i was able to get three. im not eligible for any of them. >> how were you able to get them so easily? >> i...

Phones in no time. there was reaction. fox news political analyst angela mcgowan and gentlemen mu green is with us. >> im laughing -- that video, that woman in that video, bless her heart, she is out of her mind. what the heck is an obama phone? there are these phones that have been given to welfare recipients. >> obama phone. >> for over a decade. >> shes 1984. >> nothing to do with it. obama has nothing to do with it. theres no taxpayer funding involved in it. >> excuse me. >> i dont know wher...

Other way to do that, didnt have a landline. there are good foundations. the problem is where we end up now. there is an incentive for the wireless phone companies to make sure they get as many as they can out the door including your three. >> yes. there is a problem. you cant take a landline and sell it at a pawn shop for 40 bucks and you can do that with a cell phone. since 2008 when cell phones became available as part of the lifeline program costs more than doubled, 822 million, i think, in ...

Obama phones in in no time. there was reaction. fox news political analyst angela mcgowan and jemu green is with us. why are you laughing? >> im laughing -- that video, that woman in that video, bless her heart, she is out of her mind. what the heck is an obama phone? there are these phones that have been given to welfare recipients. >> obama phone. >> for over a decade. >> shes 1984. >> nothing to do with it. obama has nothing to do with it. theres no taxpayer funding involved in it. >> excuse ...