Verizon deepens commitment to help vulnerable communities and bridge digital divide
2020-2025 Responsible Business Investment to Exceed $3 Billion
Builds upon Fios Forward and now offers Emergency Broadband Benefit program for qualifying customers
What you need to know:
Today, Verizon serves the most rural wireless customers in the U.S. and has the highest reliability ranking in the industry.
As part of Citizen Verizon, the company’s responsible business plan to impact economic, environmental and social advancement, investment to help vulnerable communities is on track to exceed $3 billion by 2025.
New partnership with National 4-H Council announced, aimed at bringing digital skills training to rural communities though the 4-H Tech Changemakers program.
Operator
Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by, and welcome to the Altice USA first-quarter 2021 earnings call. [Operator instructions] Thank you. I would now like to turn the conference over to Mr. Nick Brown.
Sir, please begin.
Executive Vice President, Corporate Finance and Development
Hello, everyone. Thanks for joining. In a moment, I ll hand over to Altice USA s CEO, Dexter Goei; and our CFO, Mike Grau, who will take you through the presentation, and then we ll have time for Q&A. As today s presentation may contain forward-looking statements, please read the disclaimer on Page 2 of the presentation.
Dexter, please go ahead.
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Here are five elements of this AT&T initiative:
Education Offers: The company will continue to offer discounted wireless to more than 135,000 public and private K-12 schools, colleges, and universities.
Access from AT&T: This five-year-oldAT&T-funded program makes the internet more affordable for customers by providing qualifying households with wireline internet service at $10 or less per month. AT&T continues to waive data overages for these customers and is keeping the expanded eligibility to qualifying households and those participating in the National School Lunch Program and Head Start.
Emergency Broadband Benefit: Eligible customers can temporarily reduce their monthly broadband costs by taking advantage of the federal Emergency Broadband Benefit. This FCC program will allow more than 30 million households to receive an additional subsidy of up to $50 a month for broadband internet service. This will push the broadband’s monthly cost to as low as $0.
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