Tech Talk: Comcast expands Internet Essentials to low-income veterans

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Comcast is expanding its Internet Essentials program to low-income veterans. The program offers low-cost computers and internet service. (Photo courtesy of flickr.com.)

After connecting more than 6 million people with low-cost, high-speed internet, Comcast announced Monday it’s expanding its Internet Essentials program to low-income veterans.

There are about 1 million of them living within Comcast’s footprint, the media giant said Monday when it announced the expansion, national statistics and local numbers during its annual back-to-school celebration of the 7-year-old program, writes Michelle Caffrey at bizjournals.com.

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The Internet Essentials’ program, started in 2011 as a part of Comcast’s merger with NBCUniversal, offers low-cost computers, low-cost high speed internet service and digital literacy services to low-income individuals. It started out focusing on just families with children but has been expanded over the years to include adults receiving federal housing subsidies and low-income seniors. Comcast, which has been vocal about its veterans hiring initiatives, cited U.S. Census Bureau statistics in rolling out the veterans expansion — more than 30 percent of low-income veterans don’t have internet access and less than 60 percent don’t own a computer.

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