Less white neighborhoods get worse internet deals, analysis finds
While none of the ISPs denied offering vastly different rates based on neighborhoods, they said the intent is not to discriminate.
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While none of the ISPs denied offering vastly different rates based on neighborhoods, they said the intent is not to discriminate.
The neighborhoods offered the worst deals had lower median incomes in nine out of 10 cities in the analysis. In two-thirds of the cities where The Markup had enough data to compare, the providers gave the worst offers to the least white neighborhoods.
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An analysis of data gathered on 800,000 internet service offers in 38 U.S. cities shows that poor and less white neighborhoods get the worst deals. A closer look.