Comcast to launch $10 internet service for low-income families

The FCC mandated Comcast to connect Low income families. Comcast has to not want to. FCC were the ones discontinued antenna service. Get your comments and complaints to the FCC

The way the country is going we will all be on this plan.

People complain but still they pay the outrageous prices that keep the market rolling. Longest lines yet at the Apple store over the weekend. Gotta get the newest gagets and make the phone companies some more money. We are the ones that keep the prices high because we continually pay whatever they ask just to have cool stuff.

$10 service for the kids in J Crew outfits, being observed by the couple on the $2500 italian leather sofa. Nice one guys...

why can't it be fair across the board? the same service for the same price??
the supermarkets don't sell groceries based on income, it's the same price for everyone.
giving discounts for a service or goods based on income only proves they can give it to everyone cheaper.......but choose not to! so on paper at least it justifies ripping everyone else off!!!!

i love the picture of the apparently low income family

Comcast is NOT doing this because they are nice. They are doing it because they were ordered to do so by the FCC (a federal agency) if they wanted to buy NBC they had to provide low cost internet for the poor. You can be that if they hadn't been told they HAD to do this they WOULDN'T have done it.

if they have a laptop, they can use the internet a mcdonalds for free.

Now they have an reason and excuse raise your bill.

Wow, I am a single mother with 2 teenagers, work full-time, and due to this economy and high gas prices, I have had to cut out my cable and internet. It's just not a necessity and Comcast prices are outrageous...yet we still keep giving everything to the welfare recipients..free cell phone, free food, free this and free that. It's ridiculous if you ask me.

Comcast is a rip off. They have a monopoly here in FL where they are the "only" provider in various areas. We are being charged $50 a month for internet service, and friends in Michigan get the same service for $20, so much for Comcast treating thier customers fair and equal.

Great...... poor people with kids. The real strain on the American Economy. You should be required to put $20,000 down or have your pay garnished $500 a month into a child custodial account before you're allowed to pump out a kid these days. Imagine the Billions in tax $$ that would be saved from Assistance Programs and Welfare if child allowance was income based. Billions. If you can't afford to take $500 and burn it in your fireplace every month then you shouldn't be having kids....... Period.

Amazingly enough a lot of the people who will qualify for this program are walking around with expensive smart phones and a 250.00 a month cell phone bill. Sorry, but there are plenty of places that people can have free access to computers and internet. It is not a basic necessity of life and should not be subsidized by those of us who manage to pay full price.

Wow is this why my bill keeps going up a little each month?

As a Police officer i go into these "projects" all the time in responce to calls by the residents there. I see more dodge chargers, huge chrome rims and other expensive cars then i see in "middle class" areas. Once inside a residence more times then not I find a huge flat screen TV a game console of some kind (xbox etc) and one (often more then one) laptop. Mean while I need to swat fleas, dodge spider and roaches falling off the doorframes and hold my breath so i dont barf. The kitchen is usually a mess and I would be spot on for most mentioning the three children running around in various states of dress from ages 2 to 8. The welfare and other support programs need to be re evaluated. I think some agency should be in charge of evaluating how that free money is being spent and adjustments made accordingly depending on whats found.

I sell cars for a living. Half the people buying new Maxima's/Altima's/Armada's leave our place with payments that are more than a fourth of their incomes. Yet, they have to have that $40,000 car to park in front of that $2000 trailer they live in with six kids.

There is no reason why ALL cable internet providers can't offer full packages for under $60. The line are in, the equipment is there. With the MILLIONS of subscribers, they are making money hand over fist and laughing at us(the consumers) all the way to the bank. How do you think Directv and Dishnetwork make their money?? They sell programming and access to CABLE COMPANIES!!!!!!!!

I fail to understand all the complaining about people who are on public assistance! In the State of Louisiana you are considered low income if you make anything less than $2,708 a month for one person... a family of 4 can make up to $5,513 monthly! The average American family makes much less than $5,000 per month and could still qualifies for federal aide and I personally don't see a problem with this. If someone makes that much money and is still considered low income, they are actually the working middle class and would qualify for this offer if they have a child in school and on free lunch (which the family would qualify for if they would qualify for food stamps). So the problem alot of posters have with this offer would be??????????

the low middle class with no children, will suffer the most at the hands of Comcast for their reduced internet. Also, this is discrimination, saying that you have to have a kid in order to qualify. I know plenty of families with children who have a ton of more money than some of the single women I know who can't even go online to look for a job bc they can't afford the rates. I am a Comcast customer, paying approximately $60 for the lowest speed internet and I'm not working, collecting unemployment (never did), not living on welfare or getting any assistance whatsoever. My God, if that isn't financial rape, I don't know what is. Btw, my landlord told me that everyone in my complex is paying inflated rates to Comcast bc of a contract that the leasing company has with Comcast. I live in the middle of a residential neighborhood and I have talked to people who live in the surrounding houses. I was able to confirm that as an apt dweller, I am paying more.

Hahah - I think it's funny they put a rich white family in for the picture with a brand new cream sofa, Macbook PRO and marble floor.

Have you ever seen a ghetto carpet? You do not want to lay down on it.