Recently Comcast and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced a partnership to close the digital divide for up to two million HUD-assisted households through Internet Essentials, Comcast’s high-speed internet adoption program for low-income families. Since that announcement, community leaders have worked to encourage HUD and other affordable housing-assisted city residents to apply […]
Partnering with the United Way of Greater Union County to address Digital Literacy
By James Horne Jr., President and CEO, United Way of Greater Union County As the world’s largest privately funded nonprofit organization, the United Way has been an important change-agent in the lives of people across the globe. Locally, United Way of Greater Union County (UWGUC) has thrived for close to 100 years, in part by forming […]
Comcast Introduces Internet Essentials for Low-Income Seniors in Philadelphia
Announces Launch of Additional Program Expansions for City Residents Comcast today announced the launch of a pilot program for low-income senior citizens in Philadelphia as part of Internet Essentials, the nation’s largest and most comprehensive high-speed Internet adoption program for low-income Americans. In less than five years, Internet Essentials has connected more than 600,000 low-income […]
Internet Essentials Reaches New Philadelphia Milestones
Yesterday, Comcast made new announcements about our expansion of Internet Essentials, the largest and most comprehensive broadband adoption program in the country. Along with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) ConnectHome initiative, we introduced a pilot program to attack the digital divide for public housing residents. Through the pilot, eligibility for Internet […]
The cruel irony of the ‘digital divide’ and how it’s hurting Philadelphia
By David L. Cohen, Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer of Comcast Corp. Article originally appeared in the Philadelphia Business Journal on February 12, 2016 For more than a decade, there has been a national debate about how to close the digital divide: the gap between those who are connected to high-speed Internet […]