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New York mandates $15-a-month internet for low-income households FacebookTwitterEmail Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced a provision for low-cost broadband access for low-income households across New York state on Friday, April 16, 2021. Pictured is a technician installing broadband in Albany, N.Y. back in 2009. (Times Union Archive) ALBANY – Fifteen dollars a month. That is New York state s newly mandated price for a high-speed internet – otherwise known as broadband – connection for low-income households under a new law signed last week by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the first of its kind in the United States, he claims. And it can t come soon enough to the Empire State, which like the rest of the country has seen its economic and social structures dramatically transformed over the past 12 months to adapt to government lockdown orders.

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