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November 23, 2015 Recognizing widening gaps in educational opportunity, Voqal Education supports organizations working to even the educational playing field. The Education Venture Fund will provide $50-100K to technology and media organizations addressing opportunity and achievement gaps within the U.S. educational system. “Inequality in education leads to social and economic inequality,” said Education Fund Director David Meyer. “We’re pleased to support organizations with innovative solutions

Nov. 19, 2015 This just in: In an another attempt to subvert the orders of Massachusetts Superior Court Judge Janet Sanders, Sprint asked an appeals court to suspend her decision and force the nonprofits that run Mobile Citizen and Mobile Beacon to pony up a $65 million bond despite her ruling that this was excessive

November 17, 2015 Philadelphia residents met outside a downtown Sprint store this afternoon to protest Sprint’s shutdown of broadband access to 300,000 Americans, including more than 10,000 Philadelphians. Mobile Citizen and Mobile Beacon currently provide unlimited broadband service for $10 a month to 429 schools, 61 libraries and 1,820 nonprofit organizations across the country on

November 16, 2015 In a letter to the Federal Communications Commission’s Chairman Thomas Wheeler, Minnesota Congressman Keith Ellison urged the FCC to work with Mobile Citizen and Mobile Beacon to prevent the shutdown of broadband access to 300,000 Americans, including 11,000 individuals in Rep. Ellison’s 5th Congressional District of Minnesota. “All Americans deserve equal Internet access

Nov. 16, 2015 You’ve heard the news. A court granted a preliminary injunction stopping Sprint from disconnecting Internet to 429 schools, 61 libraries, and 1,820 nonprofits across the country. But instead of working to get the community of children, parents, seniors and disabled people transitioned off the WiMax network and on to LTE, Sprint appealed

November 13, 2015 Kansas City residents gathered yesterday to protest Sprint’s shutdown of broadband access to 300,000 vulnerable Americans, including 150+ Kansas City families, and deliver a petition to Sprint headquarters. Their message to Sprint and its CEO, Marcelo Claure: Practice what you preach and keep our Internet on. The group gathered near midday in downtown Kansas

November 11, 2015 A group of Kanas City residents is delivering a petition to Sprint tomorrow to protest Sprint’s plan to shut off broadband access to over 300,000 people. The petition — which urges Sprint to keep online a community of schools, nonprofits and libraries, along with at least 150 Kansas City families — contains more than 5,000 signatures

November 10, 2015 Today, a Massachusetts state court rejected Sprint’s request that Mobile Citizen and Mobile Beacon tender a $65 million bond to cover the alleged cost of its 90-day WiMax extension. In her ruling, Judge Janet Sanders called Sprint’s bond request “astronomical,” and also rejected Sprint’s request for a stay of last week’s preliminary injunction, which forced Sprint

Nov. 9, 2015 Per the preliminary injunction granted Friday, Sprint is supposed to be working with Mobile Citizen and Mobile Beacon to get our customers transitioned over to LTE. But it’s not. It immediately appealed the decision. And late Friday Sprint submitted a motion to the court requesting that the nonprofits that run Mobile Beacon

November 9, 2015 A Massachusetts state court today released a full decision explaining the preliminary injunction it issued last Thursday stopping Sprint from shutting down its WiMax network on Nov. 6. The decision, in part, reads: “…Sprint benefits tremendously from having the ability to use portion of plaintiffs’ EBS licenses for its own commercial use. That