
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


In the rush to get families online in time for distance learning, it’s Wi-Fi hot spots to the rescue. In the Ozarks, they’re parking school buses equipped with Wi-Fi routers for kids to use while sitting in the parking lot. Chicago is spending millions to give hot spots to individual families and also connect homes to broadband. But is this sustainable? And will there be any going back from Wi-Fi for all? Molly speaks with Christopher Mitchell, director of the Community Broadband Networks Initiative at the nonprofit Institute for Local Self-Reliance. He says this expanded access could be here to stay.
By Marketplace4.5
12471,247 ratings
In the rush to get families online in time for distance learning, it’s Wi-Fi hot spots to the rescue. In the Ozarks, they’re parking school buses equipped with Wi-Fi routers for kids to use while sitting in the parking lot. Chicago is spending millions to give hot spots to individual families and also connect homes to broadband. But is this sustainable? And will there be any going back from Wi-Fi for all? Molly speaks with Christopher Mitchell, director of the Community Broadband Networks Initiative at the nonprofit Institute for Local Self-Reliance. He says this expanded access could be here to stay.

32,005 Listeners

30,732 Listeners

8,767 Listeners

925 Listeners

1,388 Listeners

1,707 Listeners

4,329 Listeners

2,178 Listeners

5,489 Listeners

56,511 Listeners

1,446 Listeners

9,541 Listeners

3,590 Listeners

6,444 Listeners

6,403 Listeners

163 Listeners

2,997 Listeners

5,512 Listeners

1,378 Listeners

90 Listeners