In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the challenges that many Americans will face in the coming months, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai recently announced the Keep Americans Connected Initiative. In order to ensure that Americans do not lose their broadband or telephone connectivity as a result of these exceptional circumstances, he specifically asked broadband and telephone service providers, and trade associations, to take the Keep Americans Connected Pledge. So far, more than 650 companies and associations have signed the Chairman’s pledge to Keep Americans Connected.
The Keep Americans Connected Pledge reads as follows:
Given the coronavirus pandemic and its impact on American society, [[Company Name]] pledges for the next 60 days to:
(1) not terminate service to any residential or small business customers because of their inability to pay their bills due to the disruptions caused by the coronavirus pandemic;(2) waive any late fees that any residential or small business customers incur because of their economic circumstances related to the coronavirus pandemic; and
(3) open its Wi-Fi hotspots to any American who needs them.
not terminate service to any residential or small business customers because of their inability to pay their bills due to the disruptions caused by the coronavirus pandemic;
waive any late fees that any residential or small business customers incur because of their economic circumstances related to the coronavirus pandemic; and
open its Wi-Fi hotspots to any American who needs them.
List of companies and associations that have signed the pledge
- 24-7 & West Wisconsin Telcom
- AcenTek
- ACIRA – Powered by Farmers Mutual Telephone Company & Federated Telephone
- Advanced Communications Technology
- 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
- Astrea
- AT&T
- ATC Communications
- Atlantic Broadband
- ATMC
- B2 Solutions
- 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 Internet
- BOYCOM Vision
- BPS Long Distance
- BPS Networks
- Bracken Cable
- Brandenburg Telecom
- Brandenburg Telephone
- Bravado Wireless
- Brazos Communications
- Bresco Broadband
- Bristol Bay Telephone Cooperative
- Bristol Tennessee Essential Services
- Broadband VI
- 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
- 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 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
- 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
- Coons Valley Farmers Telephone
- Copper Valley Telecom
- CopperNet Systems
- Cordova Telephone Company
- CounterPath Corporation
- Cox Communications
- Cozad Telephone Company
- Craigville Telephone Company
- CresComm Wifi
- Cross Telephone Company
- Crown Castle
- 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
- Dickey Rural Networks
- Digital West
- Diller Telephone Company
- DirectLink
- 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
- 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
- F&B Communications
- Farmers Independent Telephone Company
- Farmers Mutual Co-Op Phone Co
- Farmers Telecommunications Cooperative
- Farmers Telephone
- FastTrack Communications
- Fatbeam
- Fidelity Communications
- Firefly Fiber Broadband
- FirstLight
- Five Area Telephone Cooperative
- Flint River Communications
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Jade Communications
- James Valley Telecommunications
- James Valley Wireless
- JCWIFI
- Jefferson Telecom
- Kalida Telephone Company
- KanOkla Networks
- Kaptel
- 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
- 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.
- Logix Fiber Networks
- Long Lines Broadband
- Lonsdale Telephone Company
- Loop Internet
- LTC Networks
- 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
- Mediacom
- Merit Network
- MetTel
- MiBroadband
- Michigan Broadband Services
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Ontonagon County Telephone Company
- OpticalTel
- OptimERA
- Orbitel Communications
- OTELCO
- Otter Tail Telcom
- OzarksGo
- Palmetto Rural Telephone Cooperative
- Park Region Mutual Telephone Company
- Pathwayz Communications
- Paul Bunyan Communications
- 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
- Pine Belt Communications
- Pine Drive Telephone Company
- 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
- Project Telephone Company
- ProValue.Net
- Public Service Communications
- Public Service Telephone Co.
- Puerto Rico Telephone Company/Claro
- PVT Networks
- Quantum Internet and Telephone
- Rainbow Communications
- Rainier Connect
- Randolph Communications
- Range Telephone Cooperative
- RCN
- Red River Communications
- Red Spectrum
- Reserve Telephone Company
- Resonance Broadband
- 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
- Sagebrush Cellular
- San Carlos Apache Telecommunications
- Sand Creek Communications
- Sandhill Telephone Cooperative
- Santel Communications Cooperative
- SCC Networks
- SCI/Savage Communications
- SCTelecom
- SecureNetMD
- 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
- Smith Bagley
- Smithville Communications
- Smithville Telephone Company
- Socket Telecom
- Solarus
- Somerset Telephone Company
- Sonic
- SOS 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
- Stanton Telecom
- Star Communications
- Starry
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
Trade Associations
- ACA Connects
- Cloud Communications Alliance
- Competitive Carriers of America
- CTIA
- Federation of Internet Service Providers of the Americas
- INCOMPAS
- Minnesota Telecom Alliance
- 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
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Last updated 04/01/2020