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New York mandates $15-a-month internet for low-income households FacebookTwitterEmail Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced a provision for low-cost broadband access for low-income households across New York state on Friday, April 16, 2021. Pictured is a technician installing broadband in Albany, N.Y. back in 2009. (Times Union Archive) ALBANY – Fifteen dollars a month. That is New York state's newly mandated price for a high-speed internet – otherwise known as broadband – connection for low-income households under a new law signed last week by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the first of its kind in the U...

Johnson Newspaper Corp. New York broadband providers are slow to react to the details of a new state program requiring mid-sized and large companies to provide internet service for low-income families for $15 per month. The state’s historic $212 billion budget, which the Legislature adopted nearly a week late Wednesday night, mandated a new program requiring companies that provide internet connection to 20,000 households or more to offer broadband service of at least 25 Mbps at the discounted rate of $15 per month to state households in need. Lara Pritchard, senior director of communicat...

New York broadband providers are slow to react to the details of a new state program requiring mid-sized and large companies to provide internet service for low-income families for $15 per month. The state’s historic $212 billion budget, which the Legislature adopted nearly a week late Wednesday night, mandated a new program requiring companies that provide internet connection to 20,000 households or more to offer broadband service of at least 25 Mbps at the discounted rate of $15 per month to state households in need. Lara Pritchard, senior director of communications for Charter Communi...

Ohio Library System to Connect 800 Homes to Free Internet The new Dayton Metro Library program will connect hundreds of households to free Internet service through Feb. 27, and is funded through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services and CARES Act funds. by Kristen Spicker, Dayton Daily News / December 17, 2020 Dayton, Ohio Shutterstock (TNS) — A new Dayton Metro Library program will provide hundreds of households with free Internet for four months. The Get Connected initiative will give...