In a blog post titled Setting the Record Straight, David Cohen, the company's executive vice-president, batted off critics of Comcast's Internet Essentials program, which is designed to foster broadband adoption among low-income families.
Comcast's two-year-old Internet Essentials program, which offers broadband service for $10 a month to low-income families, has signed up 220,000 households out of 2.6 million eligible homes in Comcast service areas.
And it promises to offer its Internet Essentials program into Time Warner Cable markets.
As part of the Dev Essentials program, developers will get access to Visual Studio Community, Visual Studio Code, and Visual Studio Team Services, as well as training services from a number of partners, including Pluralsight, Wintellect and Xamarin.
Sun Microsystems Exclusively for startups, the fee-free Sun Startup Essentials program offers deep discounts on industry leading systems and storage products, massively scalable Web hosting services, plus free training and technical advice.
Comcast's Internet Essentials program helps bring affordable Internet and computers to families that qualify.
Comcast in 2011 began the Comcast Essentials program to offer Internet access (without setup fees or contracts) to families who have at least one child who qualifies for the National School Lunch Program.
To date, Comcast's effort to close the digital divide have focused on its "Internet Essentials" program, which provides internet access to low-income Americans for $10 a month.
But often, what one legislator views as waste, another views as essential spending for essential programs.
We must continue to provide essential programs that too many children do not get.
