The Education Superhighway reports…

The IIJA designates the installation of Free Apartment Wi-Fi networks in substantially unserved affordable multifamily housing as a priority broadband deployment. This creates an unprecedented opportunity to bring affordable high-speed internet to historically marginalized communities and those living on lower incomes. Improvements in Wi-Fi technology have made it possible to connect affordable MDUs to reliable broadband service simply by deploying Wi-Fi access points throughout the property and then connecting the Wi-Fi network to a fiber connection to the building.4 Free Apartment Wi-Fi is modeled after the way Wi-Fi is delivered in most hotels today (see Appendix 1). Rather than buy a separate internet connection for each room, the hotel buys a single internet connection for the building and then installs a building-wide Wi-Fi network. The hotel then makes it easy for guests to use the Wi-Fi by giving them the network name (SSID) and password when they check in. There are no complicated forms to fill out, and the demand from guests has now made Wi-Fi a standard, free amenity in virtually every hotel.

In Minnesota there are 72,000 who could be connected through apartment wifi.