For people on low incomes, free internet access would be life-changing | Rachel Connolly

For people on low incomes, free internet access would be life-changing | Rachel Connolly

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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/nov/20/free-internet-broadband-low-incomes

When you can’t afford broadband at home, everything – from school work to Ucas or benefit applications – is more difficult

A lot of the discussion about Labour’s promise to provide free fibreoptic broadband for all has revolved around economics, speculative polling and even “communism”. But it has not addressed what life without easy internet access is actually like for people across the country.