http://www.npr.org/2011/09/12/140336719/comcast-offers-a-digital-lifeline-to-the-disconnected?sc=fb&cc=fp
Comcast is offering high speed internet plans to low income families for $9.95 a month. And to help further alleviate the barrier, offering coupons for families to purchase computers for $150. I'll be the first to admit that I'm shocked. Comcast, doing something to help others? Never saw it coming. Families have to have a kid who qualifies for free/reduced lunch program (which would qualify maybe all but a handful of the kids I worked with at New Visions).
If this is true and not short term, bravo to Comcast. They're realizing that something like a barrier to Internet deeply affects many things. Education/achievement gap, technology literacy, etc.
Oh wait. "Comcast is not doing this solely out of the goodness of its corporate heart. The company promised to come up with just such a plan in exchange for government approval of its merger with NBCUniversal earlier this year.
And the bubble has been burst, and we're back to reality. Where corporations don't care about the common good/the people, they only do things in exchange for benefits for themselves. Oh Comcast, you almost had me fooled there...almost.
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