Comcast is deploying the grant program across the country, but Springfield was the first location where it announced grants, company officials said Friday at a news conference with partner agencies at Springfield Partners for Community Action. The idea is to get more people signed up and able to access the federal government's Affordable Connectivity Program which can give households $30-a-month off home internet access, said Dalila Wilson-Scott, Comcast executive vice president, chief diversity officer and president of the NBCUniversal Foundation. Just a quarter of the eligible households nationally have signed up.