New York City libraries soon will let patrons ‘check out the Internet’

By Nancy Scola December 4

New York City is expanding a program that allows local residents with a library card to take home broadband Internet hotspots -- sometimes for up to a year.

The hotspots allow users to connect up to 10 mobile devices like laptops, tablets, mobile phones, and gaming devices to zippy 4G LTE broadband. The devices, powered by Sprint, usually cost $49 with a two-year service agreement and a $110 a month fee for 30 GB of data.

But New York libraries will loan hundreds of them to residents. The catch? They're free with unlimited data as long as the borrower is enrolled in a library program, from citizenship classes to adult literacy. (Each of the three New York City library branches -- New York City, Brooklyn, and Queens -- will have slightly different rules for the program.)

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