[URBAN NOTE] "Rogers to expand low-cost Internet to social housing tenants"

[rfmcdonald]

The Toronto Star's Laurie Monsebraaten reports on Rogers' expansion of a low-cost Internet plan for social housing tenants across Canada. This could be quite useful indeed, although I would note--only somewhat churlishly--that the users of this plan will still be dealing with Rogers.

Low-cost Internet service for tenants in Toronto public housing is being expanded to social housing communities across Ontario, New Brunswick and Newfoundland, the Star has learned.

The $9.99-a-month program offered by Rogers Communications, will be available to more than 150,000 low-income households everywhere the company provides Internet services starting this month.

The telecommunications giant is making the announcement at a non-profit housing building in Ottawa Thursday.

The Connected for Success program began as a pilot project for Toronto Community Housing tenants in 2013 and now serves 11,000 households. Under the expansion, subsidized tenants in another 533 non-profit housing companies will be eligible.

“We’ve had a tremendous response to our pilot project with Toronto Community Housing and are thrilled to expand Connected for Success to our whole cable Internet footprint,” said Deepak Khandelwal, chief customer officer for Rogers.