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Friday, November 6, 2015

Mobile Beacon & Mobile Citizen win court injunction

Clear Brook has partnered with Mobile Beacon over the past several years to provide free or very low cost WiFi for students that might not have internet connection at home otherwise.  However, over the summer Sprint purchased the networks that Mobile Beacon and Mobile Citizen operate off of and basically shut them down, causing approximately 300,000 families to no longer have internet access at home.  This shut down affected many Wolverine families, which caused difficulties for a number of students with the laptop roll out.  However, yesterday in Massachusetts a court ordered an injunction against Sprint saying they couldn't shut the network down for 90 days until more information is gathered.  To read more about this developing story, check out this article.   

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