Comcast’s broadband product for the poor is working with the U.S. Labor...
Comcast’s broadband product for the poor is working with the U.S. Labor Department and the Connect2Compete initiative of the FCC, ISPs and other companies, the cable operator said Wednesday. Working with Labor, Comcast will provide information about its Internet Essentials…
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program at “American Job Centers across Comcast’s 39-state footprint,” the cable ISP said in a news release (http://xrl.us/bnrhss). Like Comcast’s Internet Essentials product (CD Sept 25 p12) that it agreed to start to get FCC OK last year to buy control of NBCUniversal, Connect2Compete provides $9.95 monthly broadband and inexpensive computers to the poor. Comcast said it’s working with that initiative to sell Internet Essentials customers “a low-cost, high value desktop or laptop through its partner Redemtech, as an alternative to the low-cost netbook currently made available directly through Comcast’s hardware partners.” Redemtech recycles computers for Connect2Compete.