What are ISPs Doing to Get More People Online at Home During the Pandemic?

"For social distancing to work, home-isolation has to be bearable for everyone." The Washington Post came to that conclusion on March 29, 16 days after President Trump declared the spread of COVID-19 a national emergency. The Post also concluded that we must address the needs of "Americans who are the least digitally connected." How are we doing on that front? As Benton Senior Fellow and Public Advocate Gigi Sohn told Congress in January, 141 million people in the U.S. don’t have fixed home Internet at the FCC’s 25 down, 3 up broadband definition. That’s nearly 43% of Americans. We have a patchwork of proposed solutions with no one overseeing how successful the various approaches are.