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Stephen Ronan
Sep 13, 2012, 12:04:23 AM9/13/12
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Just heard about this... http://mobilecitizen.org/
Inexpensive wireless Internet for nonprofits and, it appears, their
constituents, using Clear infrastructure
Interesting. Anyone have experience with it?
- Stephen Ronan
Inexpensive wireless Internet for nonprofits and, it appears, their
constituents, using Clear infrastructure
Interesting. Anyone have experience with it?
- Stephen Ronan
Stan Pokras
Sep 13, 2012, 12:31:03 AM9/13/12
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Hi, Steve.
This service has been a good backup to our DSL when it goes down. And
several people on our board and a couple of our volunteers have been
using it and have joined up for a second year.
Stan
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This service has been a good backup to our DSL when it goes down. And
several people on our board and a couple of our volunteers have been
using it and have joined up for a second year.
Stan
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Keri Stokstad
Sep 13, 2012, 12:39:33 AM9/13/12
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It looks like there's a nice referral program.
http://mobilecitizen.org/referrals
- Keri
http://mobilecitizen.org/referrals
- Keri
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2057 N. Los Robles Ave., Ste.105-109
Pasadena, California 91104
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Hi, Steve.
This service has been a good backup to our DSL when it goes down. And several people on our board and a couple of our volunteers have been using it and have joined up for a second year.
Stan
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Angela Siefer
Sep 13, 2012, 7:32:49 AM9/13/12
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OneCommunity and Cleveland Housing Network have a partnership with Mobile Citizen. They did so because of the challenges finding low cost broadband options in Cleveland for Connect Your Community participants. Bill Callahan can provide details.
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Pierre Clark
Sep 13, 2012, 9:05:29 AM9/13/12
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I have known the founder of Mobile Citizen. John Schwartz. personally
for more than ten (10) years. He is a genius and has opened upper-band
spectrum for public and educational use in starting non-profits
leveraging that upper-band spectrum in Chicago, Seattle, Denver,
Philadelphia and other places. Through my organization, the Chicago
Digital Access Alliance, I work closely with Mobile Citizen in
connecting non-profits to this 4G wireless resource. We use it in our
CTCs and over 400 non-profits here have the service, and we are
opening up an information center for Mobile Citizen at our new offices
in Chicago. We will also be featuring Mobile Citizen at our DexCon
Digital Excellence Conference October 26 and 27 here in Chicago. There
were some coverage and speed problems at first when Clear rolled out
their network, but most of those have been eliminated, and for about
$22.50 a month, you can get a connectivity device that connects 8
other devices at once at 4g speeds. I highly recommend using Mobile
Citizen in your areas.
Pierre
Pierre A. Clark, Co-Founder and Executive Director
Chicago Digital Access Alliance Inc.
New Address: 6353 South Cottage Grove Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60637
for more than ten (10) years. He is a genius and has opened upper-band
spectrum for public and educational use in starting non-profits
leveraging that upper-band spectrum in Chicago, Seattle, Denver,
Philadelphia and other places. Through my organization, the Chicago
Digital Access Alliance, I work closely with Mobile Citizen in
connecting non-profits to this 4G wireless resource. We use it in our
CTCs and over 400 non-profits here have the service, and we are
opening up an information center for Mobile Citizen at our new offices
in Chicago. We will also be featuring Mobile Citizen at our DexCon
Digital Excellence Conference October 26 and 27 here in Chicago. There
were some coverage and speed problems at first when Clear rolled out
their network, but most of those have been eliminated, and for about
$22.50 a month, you can get a connectivity device that connects 8
other devices at once at 4g speeds. I highly recommend using Mobile
Citizen in your areas.
Pierre
Pierre A. Clark, Co-Founder and Executive Director
Chicago Digital Access Alliance Inc.
New Address: 6353 South Cottage Grove Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60637
Stephen Ronan
Sep 14, 2012, 12:55:24 AM9/14/12
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Thanks so much everyone for all the helpful replies. From your
experience, Pierre, it definitely seems worth pursuing here in the
Boston area, also. As you suggest, Stan, a lot of nonprofits might
benefit from it as a DSL backup as well as use by individual staff.
Thanks to your lead, Angela, I see here
http://www2.ntia.doc.gov/files/grantees/39-43-b10506_onecommunity_ppr2012_q1.pdf
that Bill Callahan et al planned to bring Mobile Citizen to up to 1500
households in the Cleveland area and seemed well on the way. And I've
emailed Bill seeking more detail.
I hadn't seen that referral bonus, Keri. Thanks!
- Stephen
experience, Pierre, it definitely seems worth pursuing here in the
Boston area, also. As you suggest, Stan, a lot of nonprofits might
benefit from it as a DSL backup as well as use by individual staff.
Thanks to your lead, Angela, I see here
http://www2.ntia.doc.gov/files/grantees/39-43-b10506_onecommunity_ppr2012_q1.pdf
that Bill Callahan et al planned to bring Mobile Citizen to up to 1500
households in the Cleveland area and seemed well on the way. And I've
emailed Bill seeking more detail.
I hadn't seen that referral bonus, Keri. Thanks!
- Stephen
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