[kictanet] Policy interventions for affordable Internet

[Mwendwa Kivuva]

Here are the sort of policy interventions developed countries are making to
take affordable Internet to the masses.

The Federal Communications Commission released a plan Tuesday to overhaul
its low-income subsidy program Lifeline to include broadband internet,
marking a new effort to close the digital divide for the millions of
Americans who still don’t have a home internet connection.

The proposal calls for a $9.25 monthly subsidy for broadband services, the
first extension into internet for Lifeline, a $1.5 billion program created
in 1985 subsidizing telephone services for low-income Americans that was
last updated in 2005 to cover mobile phones.

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-fcc-is-finalizing-its-broadband-plan-to-subsidize-internet-for-the-poor?utm_source=mbtwitter
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