Spectrum is providing 90,000 free Wi-Fi entry factors throughout North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Alabama to residents devastated by the influence of Hurricane Helene. Constitution Communications introduced the free Wi-Fi entry factors on Wednesday, on the identical day it introduced the allocation of $1 million to assist Hurricane Helene reduction efforts.
The 90,000 Wi-Fi entry factors shall be situated in public areas (like parks or essential metropolis streets) and shall be lively till Oct. 7. Yow will discover an entry level close to you with Spectrum’s Out-of-House Wi-Fi map.
Spectrum is not the one main web service supplier providing providers for Hurricane Helene reduction. Starlink additionally introduced plans to work with the federal authorities to supply free satellite tv for pc web all through storm-ravaged communities for a complete month.
Hurricane Helene, which made landfall in Florida on Sept. 26, devastated numerous communities the place rural cities already had restricted entry to a good web connection.
Following the storm, hundreds of households had been reduce off by web and cellphone blackouts. In response to the Federal Communications Fee, as of Tuesday, North Carolina counties Mitchell and Yancey nonetheless have 90% of cell service operations reduce off. Cell service and web are slowly coming again on-line for different affected communities.
Along with Wi-Fi entry factors, Spectrum additionally introduced that it will likely be working “with state and native companies to supply short-term connectivity to reduction and shelter areas the place doable.”
