$30 android tablets with wifi are a pretty good option for being connected. I have a few obsolete iPads with cellular modems paid up which I "loan" to people w

$30 android tablets with wifi are a pretty good option for being connected. I have a few obsolete iPads with cellular modems paid up which I "loan" to people who need them. Modern tablets on wifi or even obsolete cellphones on wifi would be better. (By "loan", I mean I pay the person to take care of some task for me and provide the device so they can do that, but it keeps them and their children online while they sort out their financial situation. Being a teenager without social internet in the US sucks badly at this point. You become "that kid".) With regards to 4G, any spectrum which can be used for 4G has been bought for billions by the telecom oligopoly. If they wished the poor to have access to social connectivity, they would have done it. At least in the US we politically can't spin up a "basic level" telecom system as a government service. It isn't in our national narrative. So, engineering be damned, it's WiFi or nothing. And lets hope we can keep the telecom oligopoly from jamming Wifi. (Looking at you Verizon and T-Mobile with your LTE-U plans.)