Tag: National Databank

Virgin Media O2 Opens 250 More National Databanks And Boosts Free Mobile Data This Christmas

Stuart Mitchell

Virgin Media O2 is helping more people in need access free mobile data this Christmas by rolling out the National Databank to all O2-owned stores and two major homelessness charities nationwide, alongside increasing the amount of data available to help those who need it get online and stay connected to loved ones. The National Databank, created by Virgin Media O2 and the UK’s leading digital inclusion charity, Good Things Foundation, is like a foodbank for data, providing free O2 mobile data, texts and calls.  Virgin Media O2 has committed more…

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Vodafone pledges 24 million GB of data to the National Databank to connect 200,000 people across the UK

Stuart Mitchell

Vodafone has joined Good Things Foundation’s National Databank to provide free data for the charity’s network of community groups across the UK and the people they support. It has pledged 24 million gigabytes of data, enough to provide connectivity to 200,000 people for six months. Vodafone has worked with Good Things Foundation on digital exclusion projects since 2020 and this initiative is part of its commitment to connect one million people living in digital poverty by the end of 2022. Good Things Foundation’s National Databank gives community groups across the…

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Virgin Media O2 and Good Things Foundation have joined forces to launch the National Databank – to tackle data poverty

Stuart Mitchell

With more than seven million people across the UK unable to access mobile data or broadband at home1, Virgin Media O2 has partnered with the Good Things Foundation to launch the first-ever National Databank. The launch is a direct response to the need for mobile networks to find a long-term solution to the data poverty crisis at a national level – by creating a collaborative, community-led platform that provides free mobile data to those who need it. A central hub The National Databank, which will be open to all mobile…

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