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The government wants to pay your Internet bill for a few months. Here's what you need to do.


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The government wants to pay your Internet bill for a few months. Here s what you need to do.
Geoffrey A. Fowler, The Washington Post
May 12, 2021
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A student surfs the web  while working on a college paper. The federal government launched the  Emergency Broadband Benefit Wednesday to help a wide range of people hit economically by the coronavirus pandemic cover the cost of Internet service.Phelan M. Ebenhack/AP
Washington wants to pick up the tab for tens of millions of Americans internet connections. That may include yours.
The Emergency Broadband Benefit, or EBB, was launched Wednesday to help a surprisingly wide range of people hit economically by the coronavirus pandemic. It can pay $50 every month toward the cost of your internet service, and it is available to all families who lost some income in the last year and earn less than $198,000, among others. With $3.2 billion up for grabs ....

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That's A Wrap: Techdirt Greenhouse, Broadband In The Covid Era


Fri, Jan 8th 2021 12:00pm
Karl Bode
Over the last few months a wide variety of activists, experts, engineers, and academics provided their insights into broadband access (or a lack thereof) in the COVID era. We d like to thank all of the participants for their insights during a difficult and complicated time, and hope readers gleaned something useful from the exercise. You can peruse all of the contributions here if you missed any of them during the busy holiday season.
Our first two Techdirt Greenhouse panels, focusing on content moderation and privacy, saw no shortage of elaborate solutions for extremely complicated subjects. While broadband access can certainly be complicated (especially when it comes to policy, legislation, and network management), in many ways it s the simplest subject we ve tackled so far. ....

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