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Article: United States: Pilot program offering free wireless Internet.
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- March 24, 2008
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Byline: shabnam05
Increasing broadband Internet access may boost the economy, but the main backer of Kingsport s free public wi-fi or wireless fidelity system has a broader motivation.
We re trying to do this for the public good, said Olan Jones, chief executive officer of Eastman Credit Union, a tax-exempt, not-for-profit entity that has pumped $160,000 into the three-year pilot project.
ECU s investment in the pilot program represents about 95 percent of the cost of the project.
Jones said the idea is that students, especially low-income ones, could access the Internet from home to do homework and school projects, while low-income ...