Ajit Pai faces heat over proposal to take away poor people's broadband plans

Lifeline lets poor people use a $9.25 monthly household subsidy to buy Internet and/or phone service. More than 70 percent of wireless phone users who rely on Lifeline subsidies buy their plans from resellers, i.e. companies that purchase capacity from network operators and then resell it directly to ...
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Lifeline lets poor people use a $9.25 monthly household subsidy to buy Internet and/or phone service. More than 70 percent of wireless phone users who rely on Lifeline subsidies buy their plans from resellers, i.e. companies that purchase capacity from network operators and then resell it directly to ...