https://www.digitalinclusion.org/blog/2020/03/23/hotspot-devices-only-one-solution/

What are alternative solutions?

1. A significant Lifeline broadband benefit separate from the current Lifeline service, designed primarily to support phone service.
2. Financial support for community-based emergency efforts to help unconnected households find and makes use of the affordable internet access options available to them. These funds would need to go to local organizations who are already trusted by households who are not connected. Unconnected households tend to be low-income and/or older adults.

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more on digital inclusion in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=digital+inclusion