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U.S. internet providers offer free Wi-Fi for 60 days to work from home due to coronavirus
U.S. internet and wireless providers have declared temporary measures to make getting on the online more affordable and burdensome as implemented social separating due to the new coronavirus forces increasingly human interaction online.
Most outstanding is Comcast’s free public Wi-Fi for just for 60 days, viable Saturday. Significant metropolitan zones are thick with Comcast’s Xfinity-branded hotspots.
“I don’t get to say this often: Bravo Comcast!” tweeted Alex Stamos, a Stanford University internet security expert.
Home-based Xfinity hotspots are excluded, said Comcast representative Joel Shadle, yet Wi-Fi access points in public locations and at small businesses are.
AT&T and Charter Communications additionally reported free public Wi-Fi for 60 days, with Charter offering free broadband for households with students through college age who don’t as of now have a subscription.
Verizon was among the numerous providers to likewise report a moratorium on late charges and disconnections.
T-Mobile reported that it would give unlimited cell phone data to every single current subscriber and increment the data allowance to schools and students utilizing their digital learning programs.
Cox said it would increase speeds on low-cost broadband plans and Sprint said it would give subscribers unlimited data for 60 days, among different changes. Comcast and AT&T likewise briefly lifted data caps.
The declarations followed a request Thursday to internet providers by Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia and 17 different partners in the Senate.
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