America’s digital divide – the inequity of access to technology, principally home broadband – is at a crisis point. After a freeze on new enrolments effective February 2024, the end of April 2024 will see the FCC’s Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) deliver its last drops of fully financed discounts of up to $30 a month toward internet services for eligible households (or up to $75 a month for homes on tribal lands). A survey hot off the press from the FCC finds that two-thirds of the 23 million low-income households on the ACP will experience service disruptions as a result of the program’s shuttering. This will categorically widen the digital divide beyond pre-Covid levels that the 2021 Bipartisan ACP bill…