Google To Provide Free Internet For Public Housing Residents To All Fiber Markets

Posted by timothy on Thursday July 16, 2015 @01:27AM from the rising-tide-all-boats dept.

VentureBeat, an anonymous reader notes, reports that Google has announced it will expand on an earlier move to provide free internet service to poor Austin residents. Now, rather than for 4300 residents of housing provided by the Housing Authority of Austin, the company "has promised to expand that offering to every other current and future Google Fiber market. The move is part of U.S. President Obama's ConnectHome program, launched by the White House and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) with the goal of bringing Internet connectivity to more school-aged children and families living in HUD-assisted housing in 27 communities across the country. ... Google promises the program will extend to all its Google Fiber cities."

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Since Google is doing this.... by cooperaaaron · 2015-07-16 01:42 · Score: 4, Insightful

None of you are paying for it.. so I think this is a good thing for the ones that can benefit from this.....
Re:You would complain about a free blowjob by Fire_Wraith · 2015-07-16 01:53 · Score: 4, Insightful

5mb down/1 mb from Google instead of Commercial ISP: $62

Not having to deal with Comcast/TWC/Verizon/AT&T: Priceless.
Re:Why? by Maximalist · 2015-07-16 02:09 · Score: 3, Insightful

Public housing is high density and hence easy to deploy to. Committing to run fiber out to the backwoods "hollers" wouldn't work... maximum bang for the buck comes from density.