Shreveport library offering free in-home intertnet - Shreveport Times

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City of Shreveport partners with Shreve Memorial Library connected Universal Digital Access

On a windy Monday greeting the City of Shreveport it volition beryllium partnering with Shreve Memorial Library to supply escaped internet.

"I person been waiting connected this for a precise agelong time," said Mayor Adrian Perkins. "This is truthful important to maine and is 1 of the archetypal things that I thought astir moving for office. Everybody wants entree to reliable high-speed internet."

The City of Shreveport’s I.T. Department created a sensor and mounted them connected our garbage trucks to representation wherever the net had been adopted and wherever it wasn’t. In Shreveport, the net is not affordable for galore who gain $35,000 oregon less, which is 42.8 percent of our residents.

This work volition motorboat connected Nov. 1, and volition beryllium disposable to each citizens who are cardholders astatine the Shreve Memorial Library. Three room locations are offering the instrumentality astatine this time.

Locations:

Atkins Shreve Memorial Library- 3704 Greenwood Road
Hollywood Union Shreve Memorial Library- 2105 Hollywood Avenue
Wallette Shreve Memorial Library- 363 Hearne Avenue

Each participating room volition beryllium equipped with a operation that volition supply cosmopolitan integer entree utilizing a recently developed metropolis cellular network. Participants who privation to instrumentality vantage of this escaped net volition beryllium equipped with a kit that volition see a modem and model equine that tin beryllium easy installed.

"When you get home, you plug this in, crook it connected and you person a WiFi web successful your location connected to the net astatine the library," said Keith Hanson, City of Shreveport’s main exertion officer.

Hanson said that each room volition beryllium equipped to work from 500 to 1,000 homes wrong their sum area.

The backing for this task was accomplished done the American Rescue Plan (ARP) and the library.