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MB Nation – Grant Recipient Updates
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Johnson & Wales University
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Cornerstone Christian Academy
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North West Prep School
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St. Casmier Catholic School
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Yuba County Career Prep
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St. Paul's Catholic School
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St Therese Catholic School
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Valley Arts & Science Academy
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St Theresa Catholic School
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St. Patrick Academy
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Schaefer Elementary School
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Kona Community School for Adults
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Jack London Elementary School
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Holy Rosary School
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Empire Elementary
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Academy Prep St. Peters
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Austin Peace Academy
Airwaves reserved for educational purposes may go to 5G
For students at Burton Middle School in Porterville, California, a small city at the southeast corner of the massive and rural San Joaquin Valley where the poverty level is 30 percent, a Wi-Fi signal outside of the school is hard to come by. In a nation where an estimated 70 percent of teachers assign homework […]
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NACEPF and Mobile Beacon Reply Comments in Response to FCC’s NPRM, Transforming the 2.5 GHz Band
The North American Catholic Programming Education Foundation (NACEPF) and Mobile Beacon submitted additional reply comments on September 7, 2018, in response to the Federal Communications Commission’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking Transforming the 2.5 GHz Band. NACEPF and Mobile Beacon applaud the Commission for initiating this proceeding to license new EBS spectrum in areas that have long gone unserved by the commercial […]
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Mobile Beacon Awards Digital Inclusion Pilot Grant to Rockford Housing Authority and LifeSTEPS
(Johnston, Rhode Island) October 31, 2016 – Mobile Beacon announced today that it has chosen Rockford Housing Authority (RHA) in Illinois and LifeSTEPS (Life Skills Training & Educational Programs) in California as the recipients of its Wi-Fly Lending Launch Kit grant. The grants provide 25 laptops, 25 4G LTE mobile hotspots, and free, mobile, unlimited […]
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Once-threatened low-cost Internet gets new life in Twin Cities
Just before midnight Thursday, an aging national wireless-broadband network is scheduled to wink out of existence forever.
Last year, it seemed like this would be catastrophic for some 14,000 low-income Twin Cities households, which had long depended on this Sprint network for affordable Internet access.
Read moreHow to Make the Jump to Digital
The role of technology in education continues to evolve. It is important to understand the pros and cons with making the shift to a technology-heavy learning environment. Mobile Beacon was a contributing author of the FCC’s Digital Textbook Playbook. View it here, or review the highlights in the infographic below.
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Sprint must continue to support WiMAX network through early 2016, denied $65M bond
November 11, 2015 – Sprint received a setback in its latest attempt to turn off its WiMAX network, with a Massachusetts state court judge rejecting the carrier’s request for a temporary suspension of a previously issued preliminary injunction requiring the carrier to keep the network running through early 2016.
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Sprint WiMax network users won’t get cut off today thanks to court-ordered reprieve
A legal win for some remaining customers will delay the final shutdown that was set for Friday A court ruling has put off the end for Sprint’s WiMax network, which was scheduled to shut down on Friday after a rocky seven-year history. Two low-cost service providers that serve schools and nonprofits won Thursday a preliminary […]
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Judge orders Sprint not to shut down parts of WiMAX network for 90 days
A state judge in Massachusetts delayed Sprint’s (NYSE: S) plans to shut down Clearwire’s legacy mobile WiMAX network in 75 cities across the country by 90 days. In doing so, the judge sided with two nonprofits that had sued the carrier, alleging that Sprint violated their contract by pushing them to accept LTE service that […]
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Temporary Injunction Keeps Affordable Internet Access at Libraries
Updated Nov. 6, 2015 with Sprint’s statement. Nonprofits that filed lawsuit against Sprint over contract dispute have 90 days to migrate users. A Massachusetts state court has granted a preliminary injunction to stop a planned shutdown of Sprint Corporation’s WiMax broadband network, giving providers of low-cost internet access to libraries and other organizations 90 days […]
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Sprint Shutdown Suspended: Nonprofits Win Preliminary Injunction, Protect Internet for 300,000 Americans
Nonprofits Release Statement in Response to Court Ruling BOSTON, MA, November 5, 2015 Today, a Massachusetts state court granted a preliminary injunction and stopped the Sprint Corporation from its plan to shut off broadband access at midnight tonight to more than 300,000 mostly low-income Americans, including 1,820 nonprofits, 429 schools and 61 libraries across the […]
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