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Policy director at the Benton Foundation and daniel lyons is with American Enterprise Institutes Center for Internet Communications and technology. Hes a visiting scholar there from boston college. Amina fazlullah, what is this Lifeline Program . Howd it come about . Guest so the Lifeline Program actually came about during the Reagan Administration in order to provide a subsidy to make sure that low income persons would have access to Voice Service, Telephone Service. And, you know, this comes from the notion that having everyone on the network, having access to public safety, having access to each other and commerce is incredibly important. And for low income be persons, making sure that they had Additional Support to do that seemed necessary, and so thats where the program began. Host and how many people participate in this program . Guest as of this past year, about 13 million. Host and whats the cost . Guest well, so the cost of the program is, so its a 925 subsidy per household. H

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