What Can Wi-Fi Do to Help the Digital Divide?
This plan wouldn’t require running new lines and could also use existing infrastructure.
Another possibility involves cellular service providers expanding to provide Wi-Fi services.
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This option, the WBA claims, will be cheaper than expanding their normal networks.
What Causes the Digital Divide?
Differences in population density, economic status, and other resources can also affect the availability of digital resources.
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Unfortunately, the problems that cause the digital divide worsens as the world increasingly relies on online resources.
The pandemic has driven more parts of daily life online than ever before.
Whether that’s wealth inequality, rurality, or a combination of those or other factors.
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Can Wi-Fi Really Help?
The traditional ways of building networks have failed to address or kill the digital divide.
FAQ
Wi-Fi 6 can potentially reach speeds up to 9.6 Gbps (1.2 GBps).
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These speeds are up to twice what Wi-Fi 5 can transmit.
In practice, it may not reach this full potential, but it is still fast.
Simply put, aWi-Fi 6 routeris one that works with the Wi-Fi 6 standard.
