From: moder8@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu   
      
   By Mike Dano   
      
   AT&T and Verizon are looking to extricate themselves from the messy   
   business of building a bridge across the digital divide. Instead of   
   collecting money themselves for the government's aging Lifeline pro-   
   gram - designed to subsidize telecom services for poor Americas -   
   they want Congress to do it instead.   
      
   The move is well timed. A pandemic forcing almost everyone to work and   
   school online has helped to elevate Internet connections from   
   nice-to-have to must-have. And the incoming Biden administration has   
   pledged support for universal broadband.   
      
   https://www.lightreading.com/ossbss/verizon-atandt-want-to-kill-   
   ifeline-/a/d-id/766862   
      
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