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The Affordable Connectivity Program Kept Them Online. What Now?
Millions of people relied on the federal Affordable Connectivity Program to stay online and access work, healthcare, and school. Now that the program has expired, some fear being cut off.
“I’ve had a very bandwidth-heavy, very millennial internet job for the past 15 years,” Alex says, describing how he works with content creators across time zones and monitors their various social media accounts and live streams for them. In the meantime, some telcos companies and ISPs are offering short-term subsidies and new discount plans to try to support low-income households that were previously relying on ACP. Those receiving the ACP benefit through T-Mobile’s Assurance mobile plan will see no changes to their wireless bills throughout August, which means it will cost $0 for calls, texting, and data on a “strong and reliable 4G LTE signal.”
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