Spectrum sponsors a panel discussion at NYU on how to bridge digital divide.
According to the Census, more than 730,000 households in the city don't have a broadband subscription.
City Councilman Ben Kallos, who was one of the panel participants Friday, recently helped push through an affordable Internet option for low-income New Yorkers as part of Charter Communications' merger with Time Warner Cable.
"I think that the technology community needs to know about what Charter is doing," Kallos said. "They need to know about Spectrum Internet Assist and the fact that in New York City, we now have affordable internet for low-income New Yorkers, and that this is a model, and every jurisdiction in the nation should be making sure that anytime they're having a franchise agreement that they're getting affordable internet to bridge that digital divide."
"One of the big tenets at Charter is to make technology accessible to people so that they can understand the value of it in their lives, and so we've created Spectrum Internet Assist, a low-cost broadband service for low-income communities," said Adam Falk, the Senior Vice President of Government Affairs for Charter Communications.
The panel discussion was moderated by NY1 anchor and host of "In Focus," Cheryl Wills.