New York Public Library will rent Wi-Fi hotspots to people who need it most

The New York Public Library, as well as the Queens Library and the Brooklyn Public Library, will begin renting out 10,000 Wi-Fi hotspots to residents. The New York and Brooklyn Public Libraries will rent out the hotspots for six months to a year to residents who don't have broadband and who are enrolled in library programs and adult learning programs. The Queens Library will lend the mobile hotspots from five of its libraries to anyone with a library card. The hotspots will be provided by Sprint. Funding for the program came from a $500,000 donation from a coalition of nonprofits, as well as a $1 million donation from Google.