Because a lot of Americans are out of work and an estimated 16.8 million American workers, or 11% of the US labor force, filed for unemployment in the last three weeks and small businesses are suffering economic losses, over 700 of the nations broadband and telecommunications companies signed a pledge to the FCC to not disconnect services from families, individuals and small businesses that cannot pay, and to waive fees.
Some wireless networks have opened up their infrastructure to allow for free Wi-Fi access as well. If you are affected and get a disconnect notice, contact your provider and explain your situation. If you have been disconnected, reach out and ask that you be connected.
A lot of children are home relying on distance learning and need access to their broadband, wireless and wireline services. Similarly, doctors appointments are going online and the only access to doctor’s appointments and the like are through telemedine and online appointments.
Here is a copy of the pledge signed as part of FCC Chairman Ajit Pai’s “Keep Americans Connected” Initiative.
The Keep Americans Connected Pledge reads as follows:
- 24-7 & West Wisconsin Telcom
- @Link Services
- AcenTek
- Adams Fiber
- Advanced Communications Technology
- Advanced Wireless
- Aerwave
- Agate Mutual Telephone
- Agile Connect
- Agri-Valley Communications
- AireSpring
- AirFiber
- Alaska Communications
- Alenco Communications
- All West Communications
- Alliance Communications
- ALLO Communications
- Allstream Business US
- AlticeUSA
- Altus Technology
- Amery Telecom
- Amherst Telephone Company
- Amplex
- ANI Networks
- Antietam Broadband
- Appalachian Wireless
- Aristotle Unified Communications
- Arlington Telephone Company
- Arlington TV Cooperative
- Armstrong
- Arvig
- Ashland Home Net
- Assist Wireless
- Astrea
- AT&T
- ATC Communications
- Atlantic Broadband
- ATMC
- B2 Solutions
- Backstage Networks
- Baldwin Lightstream
- Bandwidth
- Baraga Telephone Company
- BARC Connects
- Barnesville Municipal Telephone and Internet
- Bays-ET Highspeed
- BBT
- Beaver Creek Cooperative Telephone Company
- Beehive Broadband
- BEK Communications
- Belmont Telephone Company
- Ben Lomand Connect
- Benkelman Telephone Company
- Beresford Municipal Telephone
- Bergen Telephone Company
- Beulahland Communications
- BEVCOMM
- BeyondReach
- Bijou Telephone Co-Op
- Blackburn Networks
- Blackfoot Communications
- Blair Telephone Company
- Blanca Networks
- Blanchard Telephone Company
- Bledsoe Telephone Cooperative
- Bloomer Telephone Company
- Bloomingdale Communications
- Bloomingdale Home Telephone Company
- Blue Ridge Communications
- Blue Valley Tele-Communications
- Bluebird Network
- BluIP
- BOLT Fiber Optic Services
- Bolt Internet
- BOYCOM Vision
- BPS Long Distance
- BPS Networks
- Bracken Cable
- Brandenburg Telecom
- Brandenburg Telephone
- Bravado Wireless
- Brazos Communications
- Bresco Broadband
- Bretton Woods Telephone Company
- BrightRidge
- Bristol Bay Telephone Cooperative
- Bristol Tennessee Essential Services
- Broadband VI
- Broadvoice
- Bruce Telephone Company
- Btel Fiber
- Bulloch Telephone Cooperative
- BullsEye Telecom
- Burke’s Garden Telephone Co.
- Burlington Telecom
- Bush-Tell
- BWTelecom
- C Spire
- Cable One
- Calaveras Telephone Company
- Call One
- Callabyte Technology
- Cal-Ore Telephone Co.
- Cambio Broadband
- Cambridge Telephone Co.
- Cameron Communications
- Cameron Telephone Company
- Cap Rock Telephone Cooperative
- Capizmo Communications
- Casco Communications
- Cass Cable TV
- Cass Telephone Company
- CDE Lightband
- Celerity Networks
- Cellcom
- CentraCom
- Central Arkansas Telephone Cooperative
- Central Scott Telephone Company
- Central Texas Telecommunications
- Central Texas Telephone Cooperative
- CenturyLink
- Charter
- Cherry Capital Connection
- Chickasaw Telephone Company
- Choice Wireless
- Christensen Communications Company
- Chugwater Telephone
- Cimarron Telephone Company
- Cincinnati Bell
- Citizens Connected
- Citizens Telephone Cooperative
- City of Bardstown, Kentucky
- CityLink Telecommunications NM
- CityLink Wireless
- Clear Lake Telephone Company
- ClearWave Communications
- Coast Communications Co.
- Cochrane Co-op Telephone
- Coleman County Telephone Cooperative
- Colfax Cable
- Colorado Valley Communications
- Colorado Valley Telephone Cooperative
- COLTONTEL
- Comcast
- Common Networks
- Communications Authority
- Community Wireless
- Co-Mo Connect
- Comporium
- Comspan
- Conifer Communications
- Consolidated Communications
- Consolidated Companies
- Consolidated Telecommunications
- Conterra Networks
- Copper Valley Telecom
- CopperNet Systems
- Cordova Telephone Company
- CounterPath Corporation
- Cox Communications
- Cozad Telephone Company
- Craigville Telephone Company
- Craw Kan Telecommunications
- CresComm Wifi
- Cross Telephone Company
- Crown Castle
- CS Technologies
- CTS Telecom
- Cuba City Telephone Exchange Company
- Cunningham Communications
- Cunningham Telephone Company
- Custer Telephone Cooperative
- D&P Communications
- Dakota Carrier Network
- Dakota Central
- Dallas Network Services
- DayStarr Communications
- DC Access
- Dell Telephone Cooperative
- Dickey Rural Networks
- Digital West
- Diller Telephone Company
- Direct Communications
- DirectLink
- DNA Communications
- Dojo Networks
- Douglas Fast Net
- DTC Communications
- Dubois Telephone Exchange
- Ducor Telephone Company
- Eagle Telephone System
- EarthLink
- East Ascension Telephone Company
- Eastern Indiana Wifi
- Eastern Nebraska Telephone Company
- Eastern Oregon Net
- Eastern Slope Rural Telephone Association
- Eastex Telephone Cooperative
- Education Networks of America
- Elizabeth Telephone Company
- Ellington Telecom
- EM3 Networks
- Emerald Broadband
- Emery Telecom
- EMPOWER Broadband
- Endeavor Communications
- Enhanced Telecommunications Corporation
- EPB Chattanooga
- EPLUS Broadband
- Etex Telephone Cooperative
- Ethoplex
- e-vergent
- F&B Communications
- Faith Municipal Telephone
- Farmers Independent Telephone
- Farmers Mutual
- Farmers Telecommunications Cooperative
- Farmers Telephone
- Fastnet Wireless
- FastTrack Communications
- Fatbeam
- Fidelity Communications
- Firefly Fiber Broadband
- FirstLight
- Five Area Telephone Cooperative
- Flint River Communications
- FMCTC
- Foothills Communications
- Foresthill Telephone Co.
- Forsyth CableNet
- Fourteen IP
- Free Conferencing Corporation
- Frontier
- Fusion
- Fusion Cloud Company
- Fusion Cloud Services
- Fusion Communications
- Fusion Telecom of Kansas
- Fusion Telecom of Missouri
- Fusion Telecom of Oklahoma
- Fusion Texas Holdings
- Garden Valley Technologies
- Gardonville Cooperative Telephone Association
- GCET
- GCI
- GeoLinks
- Getwireless.net
- Gila River Telecommunications
- Golden Belt Telephone Association
- Golden West Telecommunications
- Google Fi
- Google Fiber
- Gorham Telephone Company, Inc.
- GoSEMO Fiber
- GoZone WiFi
- Grand Telephone Company
- Grande Communications
- Granite State Communications
- Granite Telecommunications
- Grantsburg Telecom
- Great Plains Communications
- Griggs County Telephone Company
- GRM Networks
- Gunnison Telephone Company
- GVTC Communications
- GWI
- H & B Communications
- Haefele Connect
- Halstad Telephone
- Hamilton Communications
- Hancock Telephone Company
- Hargray Communications
- Harmony Telephone Company
- Hartman Telephone Exchanges
- Haviland Telephone Company
- Hawaiian Telcom
- Hemingford Cooperative Telephone Company
- Henderson Cooperative Telephone Company
- Hershey Cooperative Telephone Company
- Hiawatha Broadband
- Hiawatha Telephone Company
- High Mountain Farm Broadband
- Highland Telephone Cooperative
- Hill Country
- Hillsboro Telephone Company
- Holland Board of Public Works
- Holway Telephone Company
- Home Telecom
- Home Telephone Co.
- HomeTel
- Horizon Telcom
- Horry Telephone Cooperative
- Hotwire Communications
- HTC
- Hudson Valley Wireless
- Hughes
- IAMO Communications
- IdeaTek Telcom
- IGL TeleConnect
- Industry Telephone Company
- Inland Cellular
- Inteliquent
- Intelligent Computing Solutions
- InterBel Telephone Company
- Interstate Telecommunications Cooperative
- IPFone
- ITS
- ITS Fiber
- J.B.N. Telephone Company
- Jade Communications
- James Valley Telecommunications
- James Valley Wireless
- JCWIFI
- Jefferson Telecom
- Kalida Telephone Company
- KanOkla Networks
- Kaptel
- Kcindur Communications
- Kennebec Telephone Company
- Kerman Telephone Company
- Kit Carson Internet
- KLM Telephone Company
- Kloud Konnect
- KM Telecom
- KPU
- Kuhn Communications
- Kwikom Communications
- La Ward Communications
- La Ward Telephone Exchange
- Lafourche Telephone Company
- Lake Livingston Telephone Company
- Lakeland Communications
- Lakeside Networks
- LARIAT.NET
- LaValle Telephone Cooperative
- LCI Fiber Optic Network
- LEACO Rural Telephone
- Lennon Telephone Company
- Liberty Cablevision of Puerto Rico
- LICT Corporation
- Lightburst Broadband
- LightSpeed
- Lightstream
- Ligonier Telephone
- LigTel Communications
- Limestone Cable
- Lincoln Telephone Company
- Lincolnville Telephone
- Lingo Communications
- Lipan Telephone
- LISCO
- Lismore Coop Tel Co.
- Logan Telephone Coop
- Logix Fiber Networks
- Long Lines Broadband
- Lonsdale Telephone Company
- Loop Internet
- LowerCostCalls
- LTC Networks
- LTD Broadband
- LV.Net
- Lynxx Networks
- Madison Telephone Company
- Mammoth Networks/Visionary Broadband
- Manti Telecommunications Company
- Manti Telephone Company
- Marquette-Adams Telephone Cooperative
- Masergy Communications
- Matanuska Telephone Association
- McCormack / Ellington Telecom
- McDonough Telephone Cooperative
- Mediacom
- Merit Network
- MetTel
- MiBroadband
- Michigan Broadband Services
- Mid Century Fiber
- Midco
- Middleburgh Telephone Company
- Mid-Hudson Cable
- Mid-Plains Rural Telephone Cooperative
- Midstate Communications
- Mid-States Services
- Midway Telephone Company
- Minburn Communications
- MINET
- Missouri Valley Communications
- MLGC
- Mobile Beacon
- Mobius Communications Company
- Molalla Communications Company
- Monitor Telecom
- Monkeybrains
- Monon Telephone Company
- Monroe Telephone Company
- Morristown Utilities
- Mosaic Telecom
- Moundridge Telephone Company
- Mount Horeb Telephone Company
- Mountain West Technologies
- MPU CONNECT
- MTC Communications
- MTE Communications
- Mulberry Telecommunications
- Murray Electric System
- Mutual Telephone Company
- Myakka Communications
- NATCO Communications
- NCC
- Nebraska Central Telephone Company
- Nelson Cable
- Nemont
- Nemont Communications
- Nemont Telephone Cooperative
- NEMR Telecom
- Neptuno
- Network Communications International Corporation
- NeuBeam
- New Lisbon Broadband and Communications
- New Lisbon Telephone Company
- New Paris Telephone
- NewWave Communications
- Next Powered by NAEC
- Nex-Tech
- Nex-Tech Wireless
- NfinityLink Communications
- Ninestar Connect
- NiTCO
- NNTC Wireless
- Nortex Communications
- North Central Telephone Cooperative
- North Dakota Telephone Company
- Northeast Louisiana Telephone Company
- Northeast Nebraska Telephone Company
- Northern Telephone Cooperative
- Northern Valley Communications
- Northland Communications
- NorthState
- Northwest Communications
- Northwest Communications Cooperative
- Northwest Fiber
- Northwest Missouri Cellular
- Northwest Ohio Broadband
- Norvado
- NOS Communications
- Nsight Teleservices
- Ntec
- NTUA Wireless
- Nucla-Naturita Telephone Company
- Nunn Telephone
- Nushagak Cooperative
- NUSO
- NWN Corporation
- OACYS Technology
- OEC Fiber
- OEConnect
- OMGitsfast
- Ontonagon County Telephone Company
- OpticaTel
- OptimERA
- Orbitel Communications
- OTELCO
- Otter Tail Telcom
- OzarksGo
- Palmetto Rural Telephone Cooperative
- Park Region Mutual Telephone Company
- Pathwayz Communications
- Paul Bunyan Communications
- PC Telcom
- PD Fiber
- Peninsula Fiber Network
- Pennsylvania Telephone Company
- Peoples Rural Telephone Cooperative
- Peoples Telephone Cooperative
- PGTelco
- Phone.com
- Piedmont Communications
- Pierce Telecommunications
- Pigeon Telephone Company
- Pilot Fiber
- Pine Belt Communications
- Pine Drive Telephone Company
- Pineland Telephone Cooperative
- Pinnacles Telephone Co.
- Pinpoint Communications
- Pioneer Communications
- Pioneer Telephone Cooperative
- Plains Cooperative Telephone
- Plainview Telephone Company
- Planters Telephone Cooperative
- Plateau Telecommunications
- Poka Lambro Telephone Cooperative
- Polar Communications
- Ponderosa Telephone Co.
- Portative Technologies
- Pottawatomie Telephone Company
- Premier Communications
- Prestige Broadband
- PriorityONE Telecommunications
- Project Telephone Company
- ProValue.Net
- Public Service Communications
- Public Service Telephone Co.
- Puerto Rico Telephone Company/Claro
- PVT Networks
- Q Link
- Quantum Internet and Telephone
- Rainbow Communications
- Rainier Connect
- Randolph Communications
- Range Telephone Cooperative
- Raven Rock Networks
- RCN
- Red River Communications
- Red Spectrum
- Reserve Telephone Company
- Resonance Broadband
- Resound Networks
- RG Fiber
- Richland-Grant Telephone Cooperative
- Rise Broadband
- RiverStreet Networks
- Riviera Telephone Company
- Rochester Telephone Company
- Rock County Telephone Company
- Roggen Telephone Cooperative
- Rogue Broadband
- Rothsay Telephone Company
- RT Communications
- RTC (North Dakota)
- RTC Communications
- RTI
- RTO Wireless
- Runestone Telecom Association
- RURALBAND
- S&T Telecom
- Sacred Wind Communications
- SafetyNet Wireless
- Sagebrush Cellular
- San Carlos Apache Telecommunications
- Sand Creek Communications
- Sandhill Telephone Cooperative
- Santel Communications Cooperative
- SCC Networks
- SCI/Savage Communications
- SCTelecom
- SecureNetMD
- Securus Technologies
- Segra/Lumos Networks
- SEI Communications
- SELCO
- Service Electric Cable TV
- Service Electric Cablevision
- Sharon Telephone Company
- Shawnee Communications
- Sierra Telephone Company
- Silver Star Communications
- SinglePoint Global
- Sirentel
- Siskiyou Telephone Company
- Sjoberg’s Skyline Membership Cooperative
- Skywire Networks
- Slopeside Internet
- SmarterBroadband
- Smith Bagley
- Smithville Communications
- Smithville Telephone Company
- Socket Telecom
- Solarus
- Somerset Telephone Company
- Sonic
- SOS Communications
- South Central Communications
- South Plains Telephone Cooperative
- Southern Kansas Telephone Company
- Southern Ohio Communications Services
- Southwest Minnesota Broadband Service
- SPITwSPOTS
- Splash Wireless Internet
- Spring Grove Communications
- Springcom
- Springport Telephone Company
- Sprint
- SRInternet
- SRT Communications
- St. John Cable
- StandUp Wireless
- Stanton Telecom
- Star Communications
- Starry
- Stoneham Telephone
- STRATA Networks
- StratusIQ
- STT Rural Net
- Surry Communications
- Swiftel Communications
- Swyft Connect
- Taylor Telecom
- TCC Networks
- TCC Skywire NW
- TCT
- TDS Telecom
- TEC
- Telemedia Solutions
- Tele-Media Solutions
- Telescan
- TelNet Worldwide
- ThinkSecureNet
- Three Rivers Digital
- Three Rivers Telco
- Thumb Cellular
- Tidewater Telecom
- Ting Internet
- T-Mobile
- ToledoTel
- Totah Communications
- Total Highspeed
- Totelcom
- TOWARDEX
- TracFone Wireless
- Tribal Digital Village
- Tri-County Communications Cooperative
- TrioTel Communications
- TrueStream
- TruLeap Technologies
- TruVista Communications
- Tularosa Basin Telephone
- Turtle Mountain Communications
- Twin Lakes
- Twin Valley Telephone
- TWN Communications
- Umpqua Broadband
- Union Telephone Company
- Unite Private Networks
- United Communications
- United Communications Association and United Telephone Association
- United Fiber
- United Wireless Communications
- Uniti Fiber
- Upstream Network
- US Cellular
- US Internet
- USA Digital Communications
- USConnect
- Valley Connections
- Valley FiberCom
- Valley Telephone Company
- Valley Telephone Cooperative
- Vast Broadband
- Venture Communications
- Vergennes Broadband
- Verizon
- Vermont Telephone Co.
- Vernon Communications
- Verona Networks
- Viaero Wireless
- Viasat
- Viya
- Volcano Telephone Company
- VTel Wireless
- VTX1
- Vyve Broadband Investments
- Wabash Communications CO-OP
- Waitsfield and Champlain Valley Telecom
- Wander Internet
- Warwick Valley Telephone
- Watch Communications
- Wauneta Telephone Company
- Wave Broadband
- Wave Wireless
- Wavelinc Communications
- We at Good Connections
- Web Fire Communication
- Webster-Calhoun Cooperative Telephone Association
- West Carolina Rural Telephone Cooperative
- West Central Wireless
- West Kentucky and Tennessee Telephone Cooperative
- West Plains Telecommunications
- West River Cooperative Telephone Company
- West River Telecom
- West Telecom Services
- Western New Mexico Telephone Company
- Wes-Tex Telephone Cooperative
- Westphalia Broadband
- Westphalia Telephone Company
- Wheat State Technologies
- Wide Voice
- Wiggins Telephone
- Wilkes Communications
- Willamette Valley Fiber
- Wilson Communications
- Winchester Wireless
- Wind River Internet
- Windstream
- Winn Telecom
- Winn Telephone Company
- Winnebago Cooperative Telecom Association
- Wisper Internet
- WispWest
- Wittenberg Telephone Company
- WorldNet Telecommunications
- WOW! Internet, Cable & Phone
- WTC
- Wyandotte Cable
- Xchange Telecom
- XIT Rural Telephone
- XL Broadband
- Yadkin Valley Telephone Company
- YK Communications
- Yucca Telecom
- ZenFi Networks
- ZIRKEL Wireless
sort byTrade Associations
- ACA Connects
- Cloud Communications Alliance
- Competitive Carriers of America
- CTIA
- Federation of Internet Service Providers of the Americas
- INCOMPAS
- Minnesota Telecom Alliance
- National Lifeline Association
- NCTA—The Internet and Television Association
- NTCA—The Rural Broadband Association
- Rural Wireless Association
- SIA—Satellite Industry Association
- Texas Statewide Telephone Cooperative
- USTelecom
- Wireless Infrastructure Association
- Wisconsin State Telecommunications Association
- WISPA
- WTA—Advocates for Rural Broadband
