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Trump admin warns states: Don’t try to lower broadband prices | ISPs getting grants must offer "low-cost" plan, but they get to pick the price.
ISPs getting grants must offer “low-cost” plan, but they get to pick the price.
The Trump administration is telling states they will be shut out of a $42 billion broadband deployment fund if they set the rates that Internet service providers receiving subsidies are allowed to charge people with low incomes. The latest version of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) FAQ on the grant program, released today, is a challenge to states considering laws that would force Internet providers to offer cheap plans to people who meet income eligibility guidelines. Boerner was criticized by California-based consumer advocates who said the state shouldn't back down, particularly since the Supreme Court rejected ISPs' requests to overturn the New York law.
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