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'Our education lifeline': US battle over broadband heats up


With millions forced to work and learn from home, Covid-19 has laid bare the digital divide across the country, with technological inequality disproportionately affecting poor and minority communities. Reuters
In January Ellie Mitchell started getting a barrage of texts and emails from her Internet service provider, warning her she was running out of data.
“The messages kept coming: ‘You’ve used 75%, 80%, 90%.’,” Mitchell, director of youth nonprofit Maryland Out of School Time Network, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in a phone interview.
“It felt like we were being held hostage,” said Mitchell, who was working from home in Baltimore, Maryland alongside her husband and their two children attending school online. ....

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Comcast Delaying Data Cap Overage Charges Until August For Northeast Region, Including Maryland


Comcast Delaying Data Cap Overage Charges Until August For Northeast Region, Including Maryland
CBS Baltimore
2/4/2021
Syndicated Local – CBS Baltimore
BALTIMORE (WJZ) Comcast is pushing back its plans to charge customers who exceed data caps days after officials in Baltimore and elsewhere raised concerns the cable giant’s move amounted to price gouging amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Late last month, three Baltimore city councilmembers asked the state to review Comcast’s plan to charge $10 per 50 gigabytes customers use over a 1.2 terabyte threshold, up to $100 per month. The trio, along with the Baltimore Digital Equity Coalition, called it “predatory price gouging.”
“To add this arbitrary capricious fee in the middle of a pandemic is unacceptable,” Baltimore City Councilman Zeke Cohen said at the time. ....

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