{"id":11953,"date":"2020-03-25T19:07:29","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T02:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/?p=11953"},"modified":"2026-04-21T19:40:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T02:40:41","slug":"getting-connected-internet-cellular-device-help-during-epidemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/2020\/03\/getting-connected-internet-cellular-device-help-during-epidemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Connected: Internet &#038; Cellular Device Help During Epidemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Useful information as UW transitions to all on-line courses in Spring 2020.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Connectivity for students who don&#8217;t have it<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.fcc.gov\/public\/attachments\/DOC-363033A1.pdf\">FCC agreement<\/a>\u00a0stating that providers will waive late fees, not cutoff service for lack of payment, and open hot-spots.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/corporate.comcast.com\/covid-19\">Comcast COVID-19 response<\/a>: offers free WiFi for 2 months to low income families plus all Xfinity hot-spots are free to the public during this time<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/corporate.charter.com\/newsroom\/charter-to-offer-free-access-to-spectrum-broadband-and-wifi-for-60-days-for-new-K12-and-college-student-households-and-more\">Charter Free Internet offer for 2 months<\/a><\/li>\n<li>AT&amp;T COVID-19 response: offers open hot-spots, unlimited data to existing customers, and $10\/month plans to low income families<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verizon.com\/about\/news\/our-response-coronavirus\">Verizon COVID-19 response<\/a>: no special offers, but following the FCC agreement.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.sprint.com\/covid-19-updates-sprint-responds.htm\">Sprint COVID-19 response<\/a>: follows FCC agreement, provides unlimited data to existing customers, and, starting Tuesday, 3\/17\/2020, will allow all handsets to enable hot-spots for 60 days at no extra charge (I expect others will follow).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.t-mobile.com\/news\/t-mobile-update-on-covid-19-response\">T-Mobile COVID-19 response<\/a>: follows FCC agreement, plus unlimited data to existing customers, and, coming soon, will allow all handsets to enable hot-spots for 60 days at no extra charge<\/li>\n<li>Mint Mobile COVID-19 response: follows FCC agreement, free unlimited data for all users until at least 4\/14<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Useful information as UW transitions to all on-line courses in Spring 2020. Connectivity for students who don&#8217;t have it FCC agreement\u00a0stating that providers will waive late fees, not cutoff service for lack of payment, and open hot-spots. Comcast COVID-19 response: offers free WiFi for 2 months to low income families plus all Xfinity hot-spots are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid-19-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11953"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20013,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11953\/revisions\/20013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}