Digital Equity Resource
Kajeet
For those seeking deeply discounted educational broadband, the industry leader is Kajeet, which bundles affordably priced mobile hotspot devices with a co-op approach to purchasing data plans in bulk, and filtering users’ access to exclude all but educational purposes (e.g., no user access to Netflix, because this would go through participants’ shared pool of available broadband data too quickly). Kajeet offers its educational broadband service nearly everywhere there is fair to excellent cell phone data coverage, by purchasing data “blocks” from all the major telcos. Their hotspots and data plans have been used very effectively for affordable home broadband access as well as for broadband on and near school buses (e.g., adjacent to an affordable housing complex).
Organization: Kajeet
Category: Broadband
Audience: Educators
Web Link: https://www.kajeet.net
Contributor: Dr. Carol Gordon, NCDE database editor
Contributor Link: https://www/digitalequity.us