Broadband access is an important tool for economic mobility and accessing education. Unequal access will only widen the divides and continue wreaking havoc in the lives of lower-income New Yorkers:
million NYC households set to lose high-speed internet
NYC had a promising major plan underway to build an open access fiber network that could deliver dirt cheap access, but it was killed by the Adams administration and replaced with an expensive and cronyistic deal with charter communications
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