EPB to offer discounted Internet for low-income households

EPB will offer its high-speed Internet service at a discounted rate to any household with a student who qualifies for free or reduced-fee lunches.

Chattanooga Mayor Andy Berke announced Monday night that EPB will begin offering 100-megabit-per-second Internet service to low-income households for $26.99 a month — less than half EPB’s current rate of $57.99 a month for 100 Mbps service.

Joe Ferguson, right, chairman of EPB’s board of directors, responds to questions in this file photo. EPB Chief Operations Officer David Wade, Hamilton County Mayor Jim Coppinger and Chattanooga Mayor Andy Berke, from left, listen.

“We must make sure that as many Chattanoogans as possible have access to our game-changing infrastructure — our high-speed broadband network,” Berke said in his State of the City address. “We can’t leave behind Chattanoogans who simply want to worship together, learn together or celebrate together and simply need an Internet hookup to help them do so.”