12/09/2009
Gearlog
Google said Tuesday that the company has teamed up with One Economy, Qualcomm, and Cricket Wireless to give away wireless broadband cards to schoolchildren in the Washington D.C. area. Free wireless broadband will be supplied to the kids for two years, according to One Economy.
The trio of companies also donated free computers as part of Project Change Access.
Today’s announcement grew out of a pilot program launched last year by One Economy and Cricket to provide free wireless broadband to several hundred low-income families in Portland, Oregon,” Sunil Daluvoy, in Google’s new business development organization, wrote in a blog post. “Students who previously lacked Internet access were able to online resources to help them with their homework. Their parents were able to learn English online, access online job resources, research health care information, and more.”
