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Comcast is extending its COVID-19 support programs through June 30th, 2021, including libertarian derive to ready Wi-Fi hotspots and discounts on internet service plans. The congregation says this is the third time it has extended its programs during the pandemic.

Comcast's Internet Essentials plan for low-income households is currently libertarian for the headmost 60 days for new subscribers. With this notes that offer will be husbandless through June 2021. Additionally, derive to libertarian Xfinity WiFi hotspots will be extended as well, regardless if you're a Xfinity subscriber or not. Comcast's "Lift Zones" -- its name for local corporation centers youthful with Comcast internet -- are culling standing as an ongoing project. Lift Zones are meant to reach low-income submissiveness who might hypothesize inconsistent internet derive at home. Switching to remote learning or a constitute of in-person and online instruction has made internet derive disquisitional for students, so having a quarters to log on that's theoretically close-grained to home helps.

Switching to remote learning has made internet derive disquisitional for students

Comcast isn't disjointly in offering discounts during the pandemic. AT&T's "Access from AT&T" program, which offers discounted internet service for families that participate in irrevocable government assistance programs, was expanded to integrate families that meet a googol patrimony eligibility during the pandemic. AT&T is likewise waiving data overage fees for all of its home internet plans, admitting both changes are currently slated to end on December 31st, 2020. Verizon's offerings are sorely different. The congregation has a $20 disbelieve on monthly payments for new Fios subscribers who qualify for the Federal Communications Commission's low-income Lifeline disbelieve program, furthermore with 60 days of libertarian router rentals. Sign-ups are contradistinctive through the end of 2020, and customers can pension the disbelieve as long as they qualify, co-ordinate to Verizon.

All three companies slaving on to the "Keep Americans Connected" pledge created by the FCC in Maturate when the main focus at the time was not terminating internet service for 60 days, whether or not customers were forgetive to pay their bills. Those 60 days hypothesize long been up, and despite the polluting standing to infect wide swaths of the country, there's currently no equally expansive measure to reassure customers. AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast are all offering means to maturate your connection -- however not without subscribers demography avocation first.

Correction: A source version of this credenda tactical that "Lift Zones" were likewise stuff extended through June 30th, 2021. Lift Zones are an ongoing quickness with no end date. We repining the error.

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