Mobile Beacon

05/31/2026

🚨 FINAL CALL! 🚨
Our mission at Mobile Beacon is to help you close the digital divide, and today is the last day to take advantage of our spring promotion. Whether you need to add one hotspot or ten, make sure you secure these savings before they're gone tonight!
📶 FREE Month of Service: Available for up to three lines.
Save up to $30: One free month per device.
No Contracts: Just $10/month per line for unlimited 4G/5G data.
The clock is ticking! This offer ends at 11:59 PM EST. 👇
https://www.mobilebeacon.org/hotspot-offer/?utm_source=promo&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=mayhotspot

05/29/2026

👋 Friendly reminder for our schools, libraries, and nonprofit friends!

Our spring hotspot promotion ends this Sunday, May 31st. Now is the time to make your move before the offer closes.

As a nonprofit, we designed this offer specifically for mission-driven organizations like yours.

Buy a hotspot and get a FREE month of service (up to 3 lines)
Save up to $30
Let us help you connect for less. Click the link to learn more👇
https://www.mobilebeacon.org/hotspot-offer/?utm_source=promo&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=mayhotspot

05/28/2026

🎓 This one's worth your five minutes.
Belinda Parker-Mendoza is 45, a first-generation college graduate, and someone who didn't own a laptop until a few years ago. What happened after she got one, and an internet connection she could afford, is pretty remarkable.
We wrote about her story and what it means for the future of digital equity. Check it out on the blog!
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Every so often, a single story does the work of a hundred white papers. Sean Gonsalves’ recent piece for Community Networks, “A Cap, Gown, and Connection,” is one of those. It’s the story of Belinda Parker-Mendoza, a 45-year-old mother on San Antonio’s East Side who walked onto her college...

05/27/2026

Big news! Mobile Beacon has partnered with The Quilt — a national coalition of 42 Regional Education Networks — to bring affordable wireless connectivity to even more schools, libraries, universities, and nonprofits across the country. 🎉

Through this partnership, Quilt members can now access Mobile Beacon's mobile broadband, fixed wireless, and eduroam-compatible services to stay connected wherever they serve their communities.

Learn more:

Media Advisory For Immediate Release Mobile Beacon and The Quilt Announce National Partnership to Expand Wireless Connectivity Access Across Research and Education Networks Agreement gives Mobile Beacon a national pathway to reach 42 Regional Education Networks and their member institutions with aff...

05/26/2026

Join us on The Signal, the new source for news and commentary from Mobile Beacon, at https://www.mobilebeacon.org/blog/

05/25/2026

“If it is necessary that I should fall on the battle-field for my country, I am ready. I have no misgivings about, or lack of confidence in, the cause in which I am engaged, and my courage does not halt or falter. I know how strongly American civilization now leans upon the triumph of government, and how great a debt we owe to those who went before us through the blood and suffering of the Revolution, and I am willing, perfectly willing to lay down all my joys in this life to help maintain this government, and to pay that debt.”

– Major Sullivan Ballou of Providence, Rhode Island in his final letter before his death at the First Battle of Bull Run

With gratitude on this Memorial Day to all those who fell in the service of our country

05/22/2026

Mark your calendar: May 31st is the last day to grab this deal.

Mobile Beacon is a nonprofit internet provider serving schools, libraries, and nonprofits exclusively. We're not a commercial carrier, and we never will be. Our mission is yours.

Now through May 31st:

Buy a hotspot and get a FREE month of service
Save up to $30 (one free month per device, up to 3)
Unlimited 4G/5G data at $10 per month per line
No contracts
9 days left. Don't let your organization miss this: https://www.mobilebeacon.org/hotspot-offer/?utm_source=promo&utm_medium=linkedin&utm_campaign=mayhotspot

Know a school, library, or nonprofit that should see this? Tag them below! 👇

05/21/2026

Rhode Island students deserve school libraries AND the certified librarians who make them work. 📚

Two bills before the General Assembly, S2078 and H7417, would help protect and strengthen school library programs across the state. We're proud to support them, and we're asking you to sign the petition and tell your legislators to do the same.

Every student deserves access to the tools, resources, and people that help them learn. This is one way to make sure they get it.

👉 Sign here:

We need you to sign the petition to support School Libraries and Librarians in Rhode Island!

05/07/2026

86% of education organizations are now using AI, the highest adoption rate of any industry.

AI tutors. Adaptive learning platforms. Personalized instruction that doesn't clock out at 3 p.m. The digital classroom is being redefined in real time, and the results are remarkable: one Harvard study found students using AI tutors learned more than twice as much in less time compared to traditional classrooms.

But here's the question nobody's asking loudly enough: what happens to the student on the other end of that tool who doesn't have a reliable internet connection to reach it?

The homework gap used to be about devices. Now it's something deeper. And the stakes have never been higher.

We wrote about it. We think it's worth your time. 👇

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The conversation around artificial intelligence in education has reached a tipping point. According to a 2025 Microsoft report, 86% of education organizations now report using generative AI - the highest adoption rate of any industry.

05/05/2026

Big news for schools struggling with student connectivity!

Digital Wish and Mobile Beacon are teaming up to help schools restore hotspot lending programs and expand device access with donated 5G SIM cards, Chromebooks, and tablets.

With affordable unlimited 5G internet at just $10/month, schools can reactivate older hotspots and get devices back into students' hands. Whether it's homework help or off-campus learning, no student should be left without a connection.

If your school has been impacted by the loss of hotspot funding or device access, this is for you. 👇

🔗 Learn more: https://www.mobilebeacon.org/digital-wish-media-advisory-connect-schools/

Media Advisory For Immediate Release Digital Wish and Mobile Beacon Expand Affordable Connectivity and Device Access for Schools New offerings include donated SIM cards, Chromebooks, and tablets to help schools restore hotspot lending and support student connectivity LINCOLN, R.I. – May 01, 2026 ....