EducationSuperHighway's Affordable Broadband Proposal

Earlier this year, a Benton Institute for Broadband & Society survey of low-income households found that 13 percent of Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) participants (approximately 3 million households) would disconnect their home internet service without the subsidy and 36 percent (or 8.3 million households) would downgrade to a cheaper or slower plan. Although the 118th Congress failed to provide additional funding needed to keep ACP running, some continue to advocate for a permanent solution to make broadband service affordable for low-income households moving forward. This week, EducationSuperHighway proposed a new program in a report titled A Broadband Affordability Benefit to Connect the Unconnected. In this article, we quickly recap EducationSuperHighway's proposal.