Kaylee Tornay of InvestigateWest
CenturyLink customers in Seattle and Portland receive wide-ranging
levels of service for the same price, with poorer residents and people
of color more likely to be burdened by slow speeds, according to a new
analysis of digital inequities in U.S. cities.
Seattle had the worst disparities among cities examined in the Pacific Northwest. About half of its lower-income areas were offered slow
internet, compared with just 19% of upper-income areas. Addresses in neighborhoods with more residents of color were also offered slow
internet more frequently: 32.8% of them, compared to 18.7% of areas with
more white residents.
https://kuow.org/stories/poor-and-diverse-areas-of-seattle-and-portland-offered-slower-and-more-expensive-internet
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