[URBAN NOTE] "Toronto public libraries, Google to offer free take-home WiFi"

[rfmcdonald]

This Google initiative, reported by the CBC, is a positive first step.

Toronto libraries have something new you can check out and take home: wireless internet.

Google is partnering with the city to offer portable WiFi hotspots, which will be loaned out for up to six months at a time. Six library branches, all located in low-income neighbourhoods, will offer the service.

The project's goal is to give free internet to Torontonians who can't afford it.

"Google hopes to give some of the most underserved in our city a way to bridge the tech divide," the tech giant said in a news release.