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  "description": "Millions of U.S. households now have access to clearly affordable broadband plans that include price locks ranging from one year to forever\n",
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  "publishedAt": "2026-03-09T12:42:03.000Z",
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  "textContent": "💡\n\n■ Schmitt-Cantwell Float Antitrust Exemption for College Media Rights ■ DIRECTV Loses Five Morgan Murphy Stations in Retrans Dispute ■ Michigan Lawmakers Want to Strip Whitmer of Appointing MPSC Members ■ GOP Rep. Darrell Issa, a Nexflix-WBD Merger Foe, Not Running Again ■ Free State’s May to Carr: Be Nicer to The Gipper ****■**** NTIA Responds to ALCP Study on BEAD Funding Going to Scrawny ISPs ■ WSJ: A Few States Plan to Sue if Nexstar-TEGNA Merger Approved ■ Top Lawyer Renee Wilm Leaving Liberty Media But, Staying at GCI Liberty\n\n**Prices:** **That sound you’re hearing** is the price of fixed broadband crashing through the floorboards beneath the U.S. communications sector. It would not be an exaggeration to say that many U.S. ISPs – responding to free-market forces rather than regulatory gimmicks – have on their own established a competitively driven replacement for the defunct **Affordable Connectivity Program**. (The ACP, with its **$30 monthly stipend,** ran out of money in June 2024.) Broadband price deflation isn’t just a niche phenomenon. It is widespread and available to tens of millions of American households, creating a golden opportunity for low-income users to get a fixed broadband connection on the cheap, and in some cases a great mobile plan to go with it. If the U.S. economy is indeed gripped by an affordability crisis, broadband ISPs deserve none of the blame. ** _(More after paywall)_**\n\n****Cogeco CEO Frédéric Perron****\n\n### This post is for subscribers only\n\nBecome a member to get access to all content\n\nSubscribe now",
  "title": "Plunging Broadband Prices Nearly Competitive with the Affordable Connectivity Program’s $30 Monthly Stipend",
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