Over 5,000 Low Income Twin Cities Residents Now Online with LTE

Recently, on the eve of the WiMAX shutdown in the Twin Cities, Mobile Beacon was on site in St. Paul (MN) with our partner, PCs for People (PCP), to help remaining low-income Twin Cities residents get online with our new 4G LTE service. It was a busy day right from the start. Before PCs for People’s doors opened at 10 am, 22 people were lined up outside. Some had driven more than 40 miles to get there, others had arrived two hours early to be among the first to get their new devices. Mobile Beacon’s team (in our trademark orange shirts!) included Katherine Messier, founder and managing director, and Rick Lindholm and Gina Restaino from our Sales and Customer Service teams. We jumped in feet first, spending the day answering people’s questions about our new LTE Internet service, assisting with on-site technical support issues, and learning what goes on daily at PCP headquarters to keep up with the demand for low-cost computers and affordable Internet access for people below the 200 percent poverty level. In the last 60 days alone, Mobile Beacon and PCs for People’s program has accomplished the following:

• 5,000+ 4G LTE Devices Distributed Throughout the Twin Cities
• 19,974 people now have high-speed Internet access at home
• 294,504 GB of data used in the last month alone