The Mountain View, California, company said in a blog post Wednesday that it will give public housing residents free access to its Google Fiber broadband service. It's kicking off the effort in Kansas City, where Google first deployed the all-fiber network in 2011.
Google already provides free service to the poor in Austin, Texas. But the speed offered there for free is lower than the 1 gigabit-per-second connection it provides to its paying customers and will be providing to low-income residents in Kansas City.
Google charges $70 for the 1Gbps service, which is 100 times faster than the typical home broadband connection. The offer of free high-speed Internet takes one burden off the shoulders of the poor.
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4 comments:
F this I am done working it pays more to Not work.
I'm with you but I'm going to hazard a guess you're the wrong skin color for it to work to your advantage. My sister works in an office where the "people of color" that work the front desk actually refuse raises each year because they want to continue working AND receive their government welfare tit proceeds.
This country is so broken.
If you wonder why your Comcast bill keeps going up this is why and the reason they are untouchable is because the donate money to the DNC.
It's not "free" internet,Google will just tack on extra fees to paying customers to subsidize the "free" service.Internet service is NOT a necessary service like gas,electric or water.The "poor" can use the internet free at the library.And lest we forget,most of these same "poor" people have phones better than you or I do.They can get online through their smart phones.
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