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Comcast Hikes Rates Despite 'Broadband Plan'


Comcast's plan to raise rates for its Internet service could have had better timing. The hike, set for April 1, per letters Comcast sent to its subscribers, come just as the Federal Communications Commission is about to release its National Broadband Plan on March 17.

As a run-up to the plan, the FCC and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation hosted Tuesday (March 9) a Digital Inclusion Summit in Washington, D.C., focused on the need to break down barriers to broadband adoption—with the goal of increasing broadband usage from 65 percent to 90 percent of Americans by 2020.

The irony of Comcast's rate hike wasn't lost on Free Press, which pounced on the FCC's failure to inject more competition in the broadband market.


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