This morning, FCC chairman Tom Wheeler posted a lengthy letter to his office's website that laid out the Commission's plans for Lifeline, a federal program which provides a $10 per month subsidy to the lowest-income Americans for wired phone services. In 2013, the program provided $1.8 billion in subsidies to 14.2 million people.
"We can recite statistics all we want," Wheeler writes, "but we must never lose sight of the fact that what we’re really talking about is people -- unemployed workers who miss out on jobs that are only listed online, students who go to fast-food restaurants to use the Wi-Fi hotspots to do homework, veterans who are unable to apply for their hard-earned benefits, seniors who can’t look up health information when they get sick."
To that end, Wheeler is set to propose an overhaul to the Lifeline program that would extend its purview to broadband access.
By Andrew Flanagan
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