More than 220,000 families now have signed up...
More than 220,000 families now have signed up for a broadband connection at home from Comcast’s Internet Essentials since the program began 22 months ago, said the cable ISP during a re-launch of its program for low-income households Tuesday in…
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Miami (http://bit.ly/19fDI14). Comcast will increase broadband speeds for Internet Essentials on Sept. 1 up to 5 Mbps downstream and up to 1 Mbps upstream, “tripling download speeds” for customers since the program’s start, said the company in a news release Tuesday (http://bit.ly/16gby7r). “For school students today, digital literacy is no longer an option, it is a necessity,” said Miami-Dade County School Superintendent Alberto Carvalho. “Our curriculum and informational systems are all rapidly moving to the digital world, which means getting students connected to the Internet becomes a more critical task.” Comcast Executive Vice President David Cohen said customer satisfaction for the program is 90 percent, and 98 percent would recommend the service to others. “When you are successful in connecting the equivalent of entire cities to the Internet, you know you are making real and meaningful progress to help close the digital divide in America,” said Cohen in a blog post (http://bit.ly/14JnAXD). Much work among government agencies, nonprofits and ISPs remains to close the so-called digital divide, all those stakeholders have told us (CD July 9 p2).