Since 2011, Comcast’s Internet Essentials program has connected more than 8 million people from low-income households to the internet at home so they can be ready for anything. With schools closed across the country, we've increased speeds and opened up access so students can continue to learn.
Internet Essentials is about far more than just bringing Internet service into a home. It's also about designing a program that addresses the three main barriers to broadband adoption: 1) digital literacy, or the lack of a perceived need for, or even fear of, the Internet, 2) the lack of a computer, and, 3) the monthly cost of service. Internet Essentials is the only program of its kind that addresses each of these barriers head on.
Comcast has connected over 8 million low-income Americans to high-speed internet at home, more than 90 percent of them for the first time in their lives.
Digital literacy is the most important facilitator of getting people connected. Comcast has invested more than $650 million in digital literacy training and awareness, reaching more than 9.5 million people.
An internet connection is only as good as the device by which it is accessed. Comcast has provided low-income Americans with 100,000 affordable subsidized computers throughout the program’s history.
with school-age children use their internet service to complete schoolwork at home.
have seen a positive impact on their child’s grades with having an internet connection at home.
feel their internet service has helped them or someone in the household locate or obtain employment.
