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New Study Reveals Unlimited Mobile Data Plans Expand Access to Education Data, With Low-Income and Rural Households Benefiting Most

  • 1.  New Study Reveals Unlimited Mobile Data Plans Expand Access to Education Data, With Low-Income and Rural Households Benefiting Most

    Posted 03-01-2025 20:06

    BALTIMORE, MD, February 27, 2025 – A new study published in the INFORMS journal Management Science reveals that unlimited mobile data plans may be a key solution to reducing digital inequality. The research shows that low-income and rural households benefit the most when data caps are removed – particularly in their ability to access educational content.

    Click here to read the full press release.



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    Ashley Smith
    Public Relations Specialist
    INFORMS
    Baltimore MD
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  • 2.  RE: New Study Reveals Unlimited Mobile Data Plans Expand Access to Education Data, With Low-Income and Rural Households Benefiting Most

    Posted 03-07-2025 15:26
    Edited by Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber 03-07-2025 15:32
    Dear Dr. Smith,
    Dear Ashley,
     
    Thank you for introducing this valuable discussion trigger.
     
    Indeed, "New Study Reveals Unlimited Mobile Data Plans Expand Access to Education Data, with Low-Income and Rural Households Benefiting Most" contains an important finding that works, on the one hand
     
    (a) in and of itself, educationally, 
    and on the other hand
     
    (b) for the future of our countries and their citizens, their companies and their communities in which communicational, informational and even computational, at the same time human- and user-friendly, financially affordable or even free educational devices particularly serve the socially disadvantaged.
     
    In this respect, your initiative today is a great impetus to all the posts I have discussed here in recent weeks, for example in "human resource management" or the "competitiveness" of all those involved through unlimited mobile data plans expanding access to education data. 
     
    Thanks again,
    also to the entire INFORMS team, which ensures this unique discussion forum.
     
    Best regards,
    best wishes,
    Willi (Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber)



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    Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber
    Professor
    Poznan University of Technology
    Poznan
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