{"id":39908,"date":"2020-03-30T13:55:37","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T18:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/students\/?p=39908"},"modified":"2020-03-30T13:55:37","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T18:55:37","slug":"internet-companies-offering-deals-to-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/students\/2020\/03\/30\/internet-companies-offering-deals-to-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet companies offering deals to students."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following Internet service providers are offering\u00a0discounts and financial relief\u00a0during COVID-19 outbreak:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"default\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.fcc.gov\/public\/attachments\/DOC-363033A1.pdf\"><strong>FCC agreement<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0stating that providers will waive late fees, not cutoff service for lack of payment, and open hot-spots.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alticeusa.com\/news\/articles\/feature\/corporate\/altice-usa-brings-free-broadband-k-12-and-college-students-during-coronavirus-pandemic\"><strong>Altice USA<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0 is offering Altice Advantage 30 Mbps broadband solution for free for 60 days to any new customer household within their\u00a0 footprint.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/about.att.com\/pages\/COVID-19.html\"><strong>AT&amp;T COVID-19 response<\/strong><\/a>: offers open hot-spots, unlimited data to existing customers, and $10\/month plans to low income families<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/corporate.charter.com\/newsroom\/charter-to-offer-free-access-to-spectrum-broadband-and-wifi-for-60-days-for-new-K12-and-college-student-households-and-more\"><strong>Charter Free Internet offer for 2 months<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/corporate.comcast.com\/covid-19\"><strong>Comcast COVID-19 response<\/strong><\/a>: offers free WiFi for 2 months to low income families plus all Xfinity hot-spots are free to the public during this time<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.cox.com\/Cox_expands_coronavirus_relief_for_remote_workers_and_students?_ga=2.21624571.1331253709.1584395470-359860653.1578098643\"><strong>Cox COVID-19 response<\/strong><\/a>: New plans include offering a low-income internet tier with no annual contract and relaxing data usage overage charges for all tiers.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.sprint.com\/covid-19-updates-sprint-responds.htm\"><strong>Sprint COVID-19 response<\/strong><\/a>: follows FCC agreement, provides unlimited data to existing customers, and, starting Tuesday, 3\/17\/2020, will allow all handsets to enable hot-spots for 60 days at no extra charge.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.t-mobile.com\/news\/t-mobile-update-on-covid-19-response\"><strong>T-Mobile COVID-19 response<\/strong><\/a>: follows FCC agreement, plus unlimited data to existing customers, and, coming soon, will allow all handsets to enable hot-spots for 60 days at no extra charge.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verizon.com\/about\/news\/our-response-coronavirus\"><strong>Verizon COVID-19 response<\/strong><\/a>: no special offers, but following the FCC agreement.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following Internet service providers are offering\u00a0discounts and financial relief\u00a0during COVID-19 outbreak: FCC agreement\u00a0stating that providers will waive late fees, not cutoff service for lack of payment, and open hot-spots. Altice USA\u00a0 is offering Altice Advantage 30 Mbps broadband solution for free for 60 days to any new customer household within their\u00a0 footprint. AT&amp;T COVID-19 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/students\/2020\/03\/30\/internet-companies-offering-deals-to-students\/\" class=\"more-link\">Internet companies offering deals to students.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3693,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-39908","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-announcements","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3693"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}