WASHINGTON, D.C. (WKBT) The Federal Communications Commission’s Emergency Broadband Benefit will make substantial discounts on broadband service and computers available to consumers beginning Wednesday.
The pandemic-related program will continue until the $3.2 billion in federal funding runs out or six months after the Department of Health and Human Services declares an end to the pandemic, according to an FCC news release.
Eligible households can receive the following discounts off monthly broadband service:
Up to $50 a month
Up to $75 a month for households on qualifying tribal lands
One-time reduction of up to $100 to buy a laptop, desktop computer or tablet from participating providers if they contribute more than $10 and less than $50 toward the purchase price.
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Hawaii Co. Insists $200M FCC Case Should Stay In Fed. Circ.
Law360 (May 10, 2021, 7:31 PM EDT) A bankrupt Hawaiian telecommunication company has argued that the Federal Circuit wrongly upheld a trial court s dismissal of its lawsuit seeking to recoup $200 million in funding pulled by the Federal Communications Commission, saying the full circuit court bench must rethink the ruling.
Sandwich Isles Communications Inc. asked the Federal Circuit on Friday for a panel rehearing or, alternatively, a rehearing en banc and reversal, saying a unanimous three-judge panel s April 1 precedential opinion erroneously holds that the correct venue for the dispute is the D.C. Circuit. The case concerns Sandwich Isles Communications challenge to an FCC order that cut off.
A bankrupt Hawaiian telecommunication company has argued that the Federal Circuit wrongly upheld a trial court's dismissal of its lawsuit seeking to recoup $200 million in funding pulled by the Federal Communications Commission, saying the full circuit court bench must rethink the ruling.
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Republicans say the proposed price controls and subsidies are more examples of the Democrats’ push for the biggest expansion of government since the New Deal.
“We all want to close the digital divide, but the only way to truly achieve this is to lead with solutions that drive results not more government centralized power,” said Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Washington, the top Republican on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which has jurisdiction over broadband expansion.
“The policies proposed by our Democratic colleagues and the Biden administration include federally regulating the rates that private companies can charge for broadband service,” she said.