New Ways To Connect: Non-profit Initiatives for Free Public Wi-Fi Access

After the governmental attempts to provide free Wi-Fi access to the public in many major U.S cities have failed, a group of non-profit organizations are now working together to try to accomplish what the government failed to do. Some of the initatives already are underway with funding in some cases amounting to 61 Million Dollars.





"There was a lot of breathlessness about municipal wireless. People thought it was going to be a silver bullet to bring ubiquitous access and affordable broadband in the United States. They were wrong," said Alec Ross, executive vice president of One Economy, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit. "In the post-municipal WiFi world, we need to focus on community broadband."





Backed up and funded by AT&T, One Economy is launching a two-year program to provide free wireless internet to over half a million people in under privileged communities across the United States.



Other non-profit organizations are also planning to start with similar projects. But even though the planning and funding of these other projects are totally independant, they're going to be using the same infrastructure that's already existing.





These projects aim to make up for the many failures that the municipalities of major cities such as Philadelphia and L.A suffered after failed attempts to provide free municipal wi-fi.

For more information, visit wired.com

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