[kictanet] Policy interventions for affordable Internet

Here are the sort of policy interventions developed countries are making to take affordable Internet to the masses. The Federal Communications Commission released a plan Tuesday to overhaul its low-income subsidy program Lifeline to include broadband internet, marking a new effort to close the digital divide for the millions of Americans who still don’t have a home internet connection. The proposal calls for a $9.25 monthly subsidy for broadband services, the first extension into internet for Lifeline, a $1.5 billion program created in 1985 subsidizing telephone services for low-income Americans that was last updated in 2005 to cover mobile phones. http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-fcc-is-finalizing-its-broadband-plan-to...