Brian Miller, Region President for Sprint announced that 7,100 high school students in Georgia will receive free mobile devices and high-speed wireless internet service from Sprint and the Sprint Foundation to help close the “Homework Gap” in the state. The program will include three public school districts across the state.

Through Sprint’s 1Million Project, beginning with the 2017-2018 school year, participating high school students will receive either a free smartphone, tablet, or hotspot device and 3GB of high-speed LTE data per month for up to four years while they are in high school. Unlimited data is available at 2G speeds if usage exceeds 3GB in a month. Those who receive a smartphone can use it as a hotspot.

Georgia will be one of 32 states for the nationwide rollout beginning this fall which includes, 118 school districts, over 1,300 districts and 180,000 students. In total, Sprint will distribute 7,100 devices to school districts across Georgia, including:

• DeKalb County Public Schools – 5,000 lines/students

• Atlanta Public Schools – 1,500 lines/students

• Richmond County Public Schools – 600 lines/students

In the DeKalb County School District, the wi-fi devices will support the district’s Digital Dreamers project, an effort to provide middle and high school students with a laptop that can be used off-campus in their studies. Sprint’s wi-fi connection will provide the gateway for the student’s devices to connect to the internet and the district’s online learning resources.