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Comcast’s residential broadband service for the poor has almost 100,000...

Comcast’s residential broadband service for the poor has almost 100,000 families with a total of almost 400,000 people subscribing, the cable ISP said Wednesday on the first anniversary of Internet Essentials, costing $9.95 monthly. “As we did last year, we…

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are about to embark on an aggressive, multi-city tour to promote and publicize this program and talk about what we've learned and the enhancements we've made,” Executive Vice President David Cohen wrote on Comcast’s blog (http://xrl.us/bnktwv). “We have a lot more work to do because the fact remains that far too many Americans, many from low-income families, are still not connected to the Internet.” The FCC required the product, proposed by Comcast, in January 2011 as part of approving the cable operator’s purchase of control in NBCUniversal (CD Feb 1 p8).