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October 23, 2015 Today’s Mobile Citizen story features Irvington Community Schools, a K-12 charter school system in Indianapolis. Only 14 days left till the shutdown. Sign our petition today. While exploring a 1:1 computer program, Irvington Community Schools’ Technology Director Chris Ashmore knew he had to bridge the digital divide amongst the school system’s 900 families. What he didn’t anticipate, however, was

October 22, 2015 Today’s story features the University of Minnesota. The University of Minnesota is not a customer of Mobile Citizen, but like Mobile Citizen’s nonprofit owners, is an EBS licensee. Only 15 days left till the shutdown. Sign our petition today. Since 2011, the University of Minnesota has relied on a CLEAR unit to provide Internet access

October 21, 2015 Today’s Mobile Citizen story features Drexel University in Philadelphia. Only 16 days left till the shutdown. Sign our petition today. More than 35 percent of Philadelphia’s residents lack Internet access due to cost. Along with 50+ social service and community organizations, Drexel University participates in Keyspot, a program that lends mobile computer labs to non-profit, civic,

October 20, 2015 Today’s Mobile Citizen story features Explore Knowledge Academy in Las Vegas. Only 17 days left till the shutdown. Sign our petition today. Explore Knowledge Academy is a K-10 charter school that provides personalized learning through educational discovery. The school’s curriculum is built around a 1:1 computer program — a program that would be

Oct. 20, 2015 A group of more than 40 organizations — everyone from Habitat for Humanity to Color of Change — has just sent a letter to Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure asking that he save broadband access for these 300,000 Americans. The letter also was sent to the FCC commissioners, the White House and the

Oct. 19, 2015 Today’s Mobile Citizen story features STRIVE Preparatory Schools in Denver. Only 21 days left to stop the shutdown. Sign our petition today. STRIVE Preparatory Schools is a Denver based community of free, open enrollment, public charter schools committed to providing every student with an excellent, high quality, college preparatory education. To make

Oct. 16, 2015 Today’s Mobile Citizen story features Minnesota’s Neighbors. Only 21 days left to stop the shutdown. Sign our petition. Having Internet access is like having food. Everyone needs and deserves it, even if they cannot afford it. Thanks to nonprofit organizations like Minnesota’s Neighbors Inc., people living below the poverty line are getting

Oct. 15, 2015 One of Voqal’s projects, Mobile Citizen, is in trouble. Mobile Citizen, along with a similar project named Mobile Beacon, relies on a partnership with Sprint to provide unlimited broadband service to 429 schools, 61 libraries and 1,820 nonprofit organizations across the country. Sprint is shutting down the WiMax Network on Nov. 6

October 14, 2015 On November 6, Sprint is shutting down its WiMax network, effectively shutting off Internet access to more than 300,000 people. While we have been trying for a year to work with Sprint to transition our customers off the WiMax network and onto the surviving LTE network we have encountered a series of

October 2, 2015 Voqal, on behalf of Mobile Citizen, filed a reply comment with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), urging the Commission to revisit Educational Broadband Service (EBS) Rules for the benefit of education and reducing the digital divide. In its filing, Voqal urged the FCC to: Update and modernize EBS Rules Open up opportunities to