Phone Subsidy for Poor Extended to Broadband in FCC Proposal
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A $1.6 billion program to help poor people afford telephones would be extended to include Internet connections under a proposal by the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission
Tom Wheeler is asking his fellow commissioners to approve a change to the Lifeline program that has helped pay for telephone connections since 1985, the FCC said in a news release Thursday. The commission could vote on the matter at a June 18 meeting.