Facebook is moving ahead with its master plan to get the entire world online.
A year after unveiling Internet.org, Facebook announced on Tuesday a pilot program that aims to provide free wireless Internet to students in the Rutherford County School District in Forest City, North Carolina— the same city that houses one of the company's massive data centers
It's the first time that Facebook has provided free Wi-Fi to students, and could be the first of many such partnerships to come if the program is successful
In 2011, the school district approved an initiative to provide a personal laptop to all of its 6,000 students, but half of them don't have wireless Internet at home, according to a Facebook blog post. The tech giant is partnering with both the school district and PANGAEA Internet, an N.C.-based Internet provider. As of Tuesday, the test included just 75 to 100 homes, but Facebook expects that number to increase Read more...
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