Big Telecom Is Terrified Of New State Laws Demanding They Make Broadband Affordable To Poor People

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Big Telecom Is Terrified Of New State Laws Demanding They Make Broadband Affordable To Poor People

During peak COVID lockdowns, New York State passed a law requiring that ISPs (with more than 20,000 subscribers) offer low-income state residents (and low income residents only) a 25 Mbps broadband tier for $15. Big Telecom didn’t much like that, but their multi-year effort to kill the law, first passed in 2021, recently fell apart…

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Since 1 March last year, the telecommunications rates for low-income Belgians have finally been renewed thanks to a social internet offer. This is a maximum advantageous price for an internet connection at a fixed location. One year after its entry into force, nearly 21,000 contracts have been signed. While, when the bill was drafted by the then Minister of Telecommunications, some 600,000 households met the conditions to benefit from it. What e…