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Mobile broadband for education and nonprofits

Mobile Citizen is the first fourth generation (4G) service provider in the U.S. to offer mobile broadband service exclusively to education and non-profit organizations at remarkably low cost. For more than 20 years students and teachers have been the focus. Mobile Citizen was originally established by five organizations that got their start transmitting educational video to schools in the mid-1980's. Today, these five organizations provide services to schools in 11 metropolitan areas across the U.S., by utilizing Educational Broadband Service (EBS) spectrum frequencies regulated by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

In 2006, these five organizations or EBS licensees entered into a 30-year excess capacity agreement with a subsidiary of Clearwire. This agreement allows Mobile Citizen to now offer advanced mobile broadband service exclusively to schools and nonprofits.