Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. James Martin/CNET Finding low-cost internet is becoming increasingly more difficult with rising prices and decreased support for ...

The Lifeline assistance program began its life back in 1985 as a way to bring affordable phone service into more American homes. Today the program still can be applied to home phones but the birth of ...

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Lifeline program making cellphones and broadband service available to an estimated 1.3 million low-income U.S. veterans is a vital service, but one that needs to be ...

Eboni Winford has faced no shortage of challenges in the months since the coronavirus first took hold in the United States. Among the most pernicious: “Patients not having enough minutes on their ...

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 ...

Assurance Wireless is a telephone service subsidized by the federal Lifeline assistance program. The company provides mobile services and discounted Lifeline and EBB plans for eligible customers.

Lifeline, Inc. officials recently announced that the agency’s Home Energy Assistance Program — which began on Nov. 1 and ran through March 31 — served a record number of low-income households ...

With rising costs and the end of the Affordable Connectivity Program, households now have fewer options for affordable broadband. But the Lifeline program is still available to help. Trey Paul was a ...