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Eugene

(61,964 posts) Fri Apr 26, 2024, 03:32 PM Apr 26

New York to require internet providers to charge low-income residents $15 for broadband

Source: Associated Press

New York to require internet providers to charge low-income residents $15 for broadband

Updated 3:05 PM EDT, April 26, 2024

NEW YORK (AP) — New York can move ahead with a law requiring internet service providers to offer heavily discounted rates to low-income residents, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.

The decision from the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan reverses a lower court ruling from 2021 that blocked the policy just days before it went into effect.

The law would force internet companies to give some low-income New Yorkers broadband service for as low as $15 a month, or face fines from the state.

Telecoms trade groups sued over the law, arguing it would cost them too much money and that it wrongly superseded a federal law that governs internet service.

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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/internet-broadband-new-york-city-6eef189aa0c757bb352e8c990e79a816

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New York to require internet providers to charge low-income residents $15 for broadband (Original Post) Eugene Apr 26 OP

Great. It took 3 years to move the suit across town. Should arrive in NJ in about 10 years. /nt bucolic_frolic Apr 26 #1

Shouldn't the state pay the difference? jimfields33 Apr 26 #2

"Lifeline" service is funded by state and federal subsidies. Eugene Apr 27 #4

No this is for select groups IbogaProject Apr 26 #3

bucolic_frolic

(43,356 posts)

1. Great. It took 3 years to move the suit across town. Should arrive in NJ in about 10 years. /nt

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Fri Apr 26, 2024, 03:37 PM

Apr 26

jimfields33

(16,008 posts)

2. Shouldn't the state pay the difference?

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Fri Apr 26, 2024, 05:25 PM

Apr 26

The cable companies said it’d be expensive so the state should pay. I think with so many cutting the cord, the revenue is down. Has to be.

Eugene

(61,964 posts)

4. "Lifeline" service is funded by state and federal subsidies.

Reply to jimfields33 (Reply #2)

Sat Apr 27, 2024, 03:53 AM

Apr 27

"The cable companies said," but these same companies have
fought for 25+ year for a system of broadband haves and
have-nots. Broadband internet has become a utility,
and the state is regulating it as such.

IbogaProject

(2,845 posts)

3. No this is for select groups

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Fri Apr 26, 2024, 06:07 PM

Apr 26

Seniors on SSI
Families w kids on reduced or free lunch, this was looking to expand it to a larger low income cohort.
I work with disabled people the existing plans are inadequate. Andrew Cuomo initiated this awhile ago. And FYI Time Warner used to always have quiet discounted plans at $20 & $25. When they merged with charter they got greedy and jacked prices. This isnt for gigabit this is for 25 to now 50 Megabit. This is a basic service that should be avilible to the poor, students and the disabled.

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