The government has a program to cut your Internet bill. Verizon was using it to force you onto a new data plan.

Help Desk: Readers tell our tech columnist about shenanigans signing up for the Emergency Broadband Benefit, which is supposed to knock $50 off monthly bills......»»

It’s unclear how long the money will last, but tens of millions of Americans can seek $50 off their monthly internet bill as part of an emergency government program.....»»

It’s unclear how long the money will last, but tens of millions of Americans can seek $50 off their monthly internet bill as part of an emergency government program.....»»

Selected by the government of Colombia to create authoritative elevation data for its national mapping agency DE.....»»

Selected by the government of Colombia to create authoritative elevation data for its national mapping agency DENVER, May 17, 2021 /CNW/ - Intermap Technologies (TSX:IMP) (OTCQX:ITMSF) ("Intermap" or t.....»»

A surprising number of Americans can get $50 each month from the new $3.2 billion Emergency Broadband Benefit. That includes tens of millions who lost work during the pandemic......»»

Eligible Hawaii households can receive a discount of up to $50 a month on their broadband internet bill. There is an enhanced benefit of up to $75 per month for qualifying households on Hawaiian Home Lands......»»

Debt collectors already have gained more than $520 million in loans from the Paycheck Protection Program. The bill would bar debt collectors that have been sanctioned from participating any more in the program......»»

UK officials have confirmed that SpaceX's Starlink was being considered for getting internet to hard-to-reach communities. Elon Musk's Starlink internet is spreading fast across.....»»

The stimulus bill includes a child tax credit for parents to receive up to $3,600 per child. Making it permanent would nearly hal.....»»

An amendment to the Senate's $1.9 trillion Covid relief package would extend Section 3610 reimbursement authority......»»

The bill, introduced this month, would force Kansas City to refund earnings tax proceeds for work done outside the city through telecommuting, a measure that, if passed, could prove extremely costly to the local government......»»

The House Small Business Committee bill included $25 billion for restaurant aid and $7.5 billion in additional Paycheck Protection Program funding. Velazquez has been instrumental to helping business owners and specifically, ent.....»»

The additional “Payroll Support Program” money for the airline industry counts as the “first surprise” as Democratic-run committees begin the work of writing the relief bill, says a Height Capital Markets analyst......»»

Congress passed a $1.4 trillion spending bill and a $900 billion COVID-19 stimulus plan on Monday following months of back-and-forth negotiati.....»»

Emergence of the relief package with a government funding bill "proved just too juicy a morsel for the dip-buying FOMO herd to ignore." Johannes EISELE /AFP/Getty Images US stocks.....»»

The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 rose above 71,000 on Wednesday, as President Donald Trump appeared to back off his announcement that he would phase out the government task force created to manage the pandemic.....»»

Microsoft will invest $1 billion in Poland as part of a plan that will involve opening a data centre in the country to provide cloud services to businesses and government institutions, the company said in a statement on Tuesday......»»

The Irish government should consider copying Australia's plan to force Facebook Inc and Alphabet Inc's Google to share advertising revenue with local media, Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said on Friday......»»

“It is a plan that emphasizes a step-wise approach, one that is fully transparent, one that is founded and grounded in science and data,” former Sen. Bill Frist said......»»