Households on tribal lands can get a $75 per month subsidy.
The FCC says that roughly 11.5 million households have signed up for the monthly subsidy.
As an example, Verizon previously offered its 200 Mbps Fios service for $40.
The administration will soon launch the GetInternet.gov website to allow people to sign up and find participating providers.
It’s an issue that’sdogged policy makers for decades.
The issue took on new urgency during the COVID-19 pandemic, when millions of Americans were forced into lockdown.
School children needed the internet to attend school.
Adults whose jobs allowed for it were forced to work from home.
And millions of Americans accessed health care remotely via the internet.
That program then morphed into the Affordable Connectivity Program as part of the infrastructure legislation passed in 2021.
