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Microsoft is expanding a program designed to improve high-speed internet access in Detroit and seven other U.S. cities.
The technology giant said Wednesday that its Airband Initiative is working to provide affordable broadband, devices and other resources in Black and Latino communities.
Atlanta, New York, Memphis, Tennessee, Cleveland, Ohio, El Paso, Texas, Los Angeles and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, also are included in the efforts by the Redmond, Washington-based company and its partners.
About 120 million people in the U.S. do not use the internet at broadband speeds, and more than a third of the nation’s residents don’t have access to broadband, according to Vickie Robinson, general manager of Microsoft’s Airband Initiative.