Alphabet to Link Low-Income Housing to Its Fast Fiber Internet
- One hundred families in housing project to get free broadband
- Fiber plans to connect up to 1,300 families in Kansas City
A technician tidies fiber optic internet cables in Minneapolis.
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Alphabet Inc. will give public housing properties connected to its Fiber network free ultra-fast broadband, as the company tries to link low-income people to Internet services a hundred times faster than the U.S. average.
All 100 homes in the West Bluff housing project in Kansas City, Missouri, will be able to sign up for free Internet at speeds as fast as 1,000 megabits per second (Mbps), the Mountain View, California company said Wednesday. Google’s parent company hopes to connect as many as nine affordable housing properties in Kansas City, reaching move than 1,300 families, Dennis Kish, a vice president of Google Fiber, said in a blog post.