Over 722,000 households in Georgia will soon lose access to a monthly assistance program used to help low-income people get online.
That’s as the federal Affordable Connectivity Program winds down due to a lack of funding, with April being the last month the program could provide participants with their full benefits.
The Federal Communications Commission launched the Affordable Connectivity Program at the end of 2021 using $14.2 billion from the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. In just two months, 10 million households were enrolled nationwide. Today, that number is about 23 million.
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