US to allocate the poorest citizens for $ 9.25 per month to pay for access to the network

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US Federal Communications Commission has long been insisting that the poorest citizens of the country helped to pay for the Internet. The state is planning to focus on providing assistance for the citizens access to the Internet, rather than subsidizing mobile voice. The Commission has already published details of his proposal.

According to the document, households with the lowest income in the country will receive targeted assistance in the amount of $ 9.25 to pay for internet service providers. This refers to broadband access channels, regardless of whether, ADSL is, optical fiber or the mobile Internet. The width of the channel at the same time should be the average for the country, so to speak. At the moment it is 10 MB / s to jump and 1 Mb / s for unloading. Provision and help to pay for phone calls - a tariff plan of any operator should include unlimited version

. However, before the Commission has restricted the lower level that its representatives understand by the term "broadband" to 25 MB / sec. It is also noted that the majority of tariff plans operators include proposals, which cost more than $ 9. At the same time just a purely voice communication services to be subsidized not only aid allocated to Internet packages (or internet + phone).

Additional funding is allocated under the Lifeline subsidy programs. According to representatives of the US Federal Communications Commission Committee, even a small targeted assistance in the amount of $ 9.25 can be extremely useful in some situations. For example, received such assistance, the poor citizen of the state could find a job with the help of network services to run a home business or to perform domestic work (school / college). It is not always a poor family can afford to spend the Internet or even to go to a local fast food places to connect to the network. Do you think that if such assistance is needed for citizens of CIS countries? Yes, of course difficult to say, but there was something in it No, we communicate, and so cheap, no need Voted 123 people. Abstain 29 people. Only registered users can participate in the survey. Come in, please.

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