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- California backs down to Trump admin, won’t force ISPs to . . .
A California lawmaker halted an effort to pass a law that would force Internet service providers to offer $15 monthly plans to people with low incomes Assemblymember Tasha Boerner proposed the
- California’s Affordable Broadband Bill Dead for 2025
WASHINGTON, July 17, 2025 – Low-income Californians won’t be paying $15-a-month for internet pursuant to state law, at least not this year The California Affordable Home Internet Act, a bill introduced in January 2025 by Assembly Member Tasha Boerner, D-Encinitas, closely resembled New York’s 2021 Affordable Broadband Act Both bills required Internet Service Providers to offer $15-per
- California Wont Force ISPs To Offer $15 Broadband - Slashdot
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: A California lawmaker halted an effort to pass a law that would force Internet service providers to offer $15 monthly plans to people with low incomes Assemblymember Tasha Boerner proposed the state law a few months ago, modeling the bill on a
- The Death of the Middle-Class Affordability Plan: What ISPs . . .
Under the original 2022 Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO), the MCAP required ISPs to offer at least one service plan that was "affordable to a middle-class household" in every project area However, the term "affordable" was never formally defined by the NTIA, leading to confusion and inconsistencies across state plans
- FCC proposal would shrink broadband deployment goals
The Federal Communications Commission is changing how it approaches broadband deployment under Donald Trump's second administration A new proposal from FCC chairman Brendan Carr would lessen the
- Court upholds New York law that says ISPs must offer $15 . . .
"Today's decision means that if a future FCC again decided to abdicate its oversight over broadband like it did in 2017, the states have strong legal precedent, across circuits, to institute their own protections or re-activate dormant ones," she said
- Court upholds low-cost internet law in blow to ISPs
Barbara van Schewick, professor of law at Stanford and Director of the Center for Internet and Society, said the ruling could back up states’ right to create their own net neutrality protections (like California and others have done), require affordable broadband options like New York and or institute broadband privacy protections like Maine
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