ISPs Articles

America’s thousands of local ISPs connect tens of millions of households to the internet. Since our national strategy relies so heavily on the internet in order to work, learn, and receive healthcare from home, local ISPs are vital to our making through the Coronavirus pandemic.

Your local ISP is the only thing keeping you and your community adequately connected to the global economy. And they do it with one metaphorical hand tied behind the back, while blindfolded and barefoot.

Local ISPs: we wrote this guide for you in the hopes it helps in some way as you navigate the new reality. Please keep fighting the good fight to get and keep your subscribers connected to strong internet during this unprecedented crisis.

Local ISPs: you know how hard your job can be. Every day you work to keep folks connected, facing growing pressures from all sides: big cable stealing your subscribers. New upstarts. Rising costs. And what’ll happen when Starlink launches later this year?

Thank you for working to connect folks. You’re launching the greatest leap forward in the internet’s 50-year history and will recast the incumbent structure of U.S. telecom over the next few years.

Starlink brings to today’s telecom what Chicxulub Impactor brought to life forms around the time it decided to drop in on Earth. Some unfortunate ISPs are going to die very sudden deaths. Others will die over the coming months and years. Yet thousands of today’s ISPs will carry on, and some among them will thrive.