Finding low-cost internet is becoming increasingly more difficult with rising prices and decreased support for low-income families. The Affordable Connectivity Program was shuttered in June 2024, ...

The Federal Lifeline Assistance Program originally only provided discounts on traditional landline phone service. Once the Lifeline program was updated to include wireless phone service in 2005, many ...

The Federal Lifeline Assistance Program's benefits extend to those who are experiencing temporary financial hardship or those who live on a low fixed income. One of the most common groups that the ...

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai recently announced a couple of changes to the Lifeline program, which supplies phone and broadband services to people without the income to pay for ...

Thousands of Australians contact crisis support service Lifeline Australia each year via the telephone, and it was only in the last six years did the organisation begin looking at other alternative ...

EL SEGUNDO, Calif., June 17, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Gen Mobile, a leading provider of prepaid wireless phone service, today announced the launch of its federal Lifeline program, which provides a monthly ...

In late June, CTIA (a trade association for the wireless communications industry) and a cluster of public interest groups petitioned the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to delay implementation ...

ELIGIBLE. SHANE? >> The Reporter: FELICIA, IT'S A $3.2 BILLION FEDERAL PROGRAM SET ASIDE TO HELP PEOPLE WHO MAYBE HAVE LOST THEIR JOB OR WHO MAY BE STRUGGLING DURING THE PANDEMIC GET BACK ON THEIR ...

After holding public hearings around the state, the California Public Utilities Commission is expected to propose improvements to California Lifeline — a program that offers discounted phone service ...