Monday, August 8, 2022

FCC Establishes Affordable Connectivity Outreach Grant Program

By Leslie Stimson, Inside Towers Washington Bureau Chief
The FCC on Friday established the Affordable Connectivity Outreach Grant Program. It’s meant to raise awareness about the nation’s largest ever broadband affordability effort, the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP). The Second Report and Order approved by the Commissioners directs the agency’s Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau to develop, administer, and manage the program.

The ACP is already helping 13 million low-income American households bridge the connectivity divide by providing the affordable broadband services they need for work, school, and healthcare. Yet millions of eligible households either don’t think they qualify or don’t know how to register. Continue Reading

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