Community WiFi Study

Broadband infrastructure is an essential and basic component of today’s global economy. Yet, with only 61% of U.S. households currently connected to a high-speed network, significant parts of the population – especially low-income, minority, immigrant, non-English speaking, rural, senior and disabled communities – cannot fully participate in this digital revolution due to lack of service by private telecom providers, lack of economic resources to pay for access and equipment, and/or lack of education about the relevance of technology in their lives.

Community WiFi is an emerging concept and best practices for deployment and related programming are still being developed. Read the report to learn how sharing key lessons will add to the collective knowledge base and help increase the probability of success of future deployments.