The Story
Moloka’i is Hawaii’s poorest, most rural and isolated island with a 60% native-Hawaiian population, the highest percentage of any of the Hawaiian Islands. The island had marginal and erratic telephone service, virtually no cell phone coverage and only slow, unreliable modem dial-up service to the internet.

The Challenge
The original project, affectionately dubbed “Hawaii WiFi O”, was to assess the possibilities and costs for making the internet available to at-risk kids on the island via the Moloka’i Youth Center. In addition, MCSC, with no hope of a positive answer, wanted to know if they could ever get internet services to the schools and communities on the island.

The Solution
For less than $100k, ezWireless installed an “island-wide” WiFi Hot Zone
serving the schools and the communities on Moloka’i. The Digital Divide was bridged and Hawaiian students are surfing both the waves and the web today.