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Five Years of Free Broadband for Income-Eligible K12 Students

Audiences for this Overview:

  • HBCU leaders who want their current and future students, school and community partners, and alumni with school-age children to take advantage of Project 10 Million, the T-Mobile free hotspot & broadband access program.

What Project 10Million Provides

  • Free mobile hotpot (includes shipping)
  • Five years of free unlimited broadband access, wherever T-Mobile provides Internet service

Who’s Eligible?

  • Households with at least one free/reduced-lunch eligible child in grades K-12
  • Even students just one day away from high school graduation get five-years of free broadband access, so long as they apply a moment before graduation

How Can Eligible Families Sign Up?

  • The household — or someone who serves them — can complete the application here,

OR

  • A school district can apply on behalf of all the eligible households they serve (click on “I’m a school administrator” here)

What Proof of Income Eligibility Will T-Mobile Accept?

  • The child(ren) participate in the National School Lunch Program
  • Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
  • Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TNAF)
  • Medicaid
  • Head Start
  • Foster youth, migrant, homeless or runaway youth
  • Community Eligibility Provision
  • Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations

What’s A Mobile Hotspot?

  • A portable way to share internet access with mobile devices (see here)

Setting Up A T-Mobile Hotspot:

See here

Using Your T-Mobile Hotspot Effectively:

See here

Video Tutorials:

For more information, please contact Ms. Jenelle Leonard, chief operating officer, National Collaborative for Digital Equity.