Lindsey Millar wrote this week about Comcast’s follow-through on the requirement that it provide low-cost Internet service to poor families with school children as part of the deal by which it took over NBC.

More here from a union and community groups, including Arkansas Commmunity Organizations, that have been pressing Comcast because of the difficulty of obtaining the supposed service. A national report by Comcast shows a tiny number have been served and, if any have received the benefit in Arkansas, the number was too low to report.

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