[kictanet] Policy interventions for affordable Internet

[Ali Hussein]

Mwendwa

Thanks for sharing. Maybe that’s what we need to do for the Universal Access Fund..

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> On Mar 10, 2016, at 7:03 PM, Mwendwa Kivuva via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
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> Here are the sort of policy interventions developed countries are making to take affordable Internet to the masses.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-fcc-is-finalizing-its-broadband-plan-to-subsidize-internet-for-the-poor?utm_source=mbtwitter <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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