T-Mobile details its plan to give free internet to 10 million students at home
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Last year, T-Mobile announced a plan to provide 10 million low-income households free broadband internet to close what then-CEO John Legere called the homework gap," pitching it as one of the reasons that the company should be allowed to merge with Sprint. The company has now revealed that it has allocated $10.7 billion for that Project 10Million" program over the next decade, with the goal of making it available to K-12 students who participate in the national school lunch program for low-income families.
Even before the pandemic, more than 9 million of America's 56 million school-age kids did not have access to reliable internet, and could not complete after-school assignments," the company said in a news release, suggesting that...