We’re committed to closing the digital divide for Coloradans and all Americans, and last week we announced the largest expansion ever of our affordable high-speed home Internet program, Internet Essentials, to all low-income Coloradans in our service area. Internet Essentials is the nation’s largest, most comprehensive and most successful low-income broadband adoption initiative. Since 2011, […]
Comcast Expands Internet Essentials Program to Include Low-Income Veterans
More than 400,000 veterans call Colorado home, but unfortunately more than 24,000 Colorado veterans lived in poverty in the last year, according to the United States Census Bureau. At Comcast, we’re working to bridge the digital divide for all Coloradans. We’re excited to share that for the eleventh time in seven years, we are expanding […]
Internet Essentials: Tools to Support Learning Year Round
Summer is winding down and Colorado families are looking toward the start of the school year. We recognize that the long break can have an adverse effect on some kids — particularly those from low-income backgrounds. Summer learning loss – or the “summer slide” – is well-documented among researchers. Most students lose two months’ worth of math skills […]
Diverse Partners Tackle Digital Divide Together
One local nonprofit is leveraging nonprofit-corporate partnerships to create change. While attending the University of Colorado, Boulder native Kern Shahi received a scholarship to address a pressing social issue with a community project. Seeing how lack of internet access at home was hurting local students and their opportunity to succeed, Shahi started making connections with […]
Closing the Connectivity Gap for Denver Housing Authority Residents
When Comcast launched Internet Essentials six years ago, we had no idea how it would be received or how many low-income Coloradans we could reach. What we did know, however, is low-income households are less likely to subscribe to broadband internet service at home compared to higher income families. According to the American Community Survey, […]