TAX-AIDE Hot Spot Air Card 2013 State Meetings1

TAX-AIDE Hot Spot / Air Card ● The National Office will supply to each state funding to purchase Hot Spots or Air Cards to help a State reach the Program’s TWO goal ● The funds will be managed at the State level by the State Coordinator (SC) ● Funding for Hot Spots or Air Cards should be used after all local options to secure Internet access at affected sites have been exhausted 2013 State Meetings2

TAX-AIDE Hot Spot / Air Card ● The National Technology Committee has created a Hot Spot/Air Card application to use when a site requests the technology needed to connect to the Internet ● This application should be submitted to the SC 2013 State Meetings3

TAX-AIDE Hot Spot/Air Card ● Each state that receives funds for Hot Spots or Air cards at sites that are not at least 80% TWO are expected to use the funds to get to the current goal of at least 80% TWO for that State. ● Each State that is above 80% TWO but not at 100% is expected to use the funds to get to the goal of 100% TWO for the State ● Any State that is at 100% TWO will not be provided funding; but may be eligible for hot spot or air card funding under certain circumstances that will be determined at the time of evaluating all states’ requests 2013 State Meetings4

TAX-AIDE Hot Spot Survey Results ● Following is information gathered from the NTC Hot Spot / Air Card survey ● This information was supplied by Volunteers who have used the Hot Spot technology. The information should only be used as a guide State Meetings5

TAX-AIDE Hot Spot Data Plans - Cost Data Plan Average Cost Per MonthAverage Data Verizon$50.004GB Clear$45.00Unlimited AT&T$65.004GB 2013 State Meetings6  Average cost of devices $65.00 one time fee or part of data plan.  Number of connections varied by site and device being used  Highest GB purchased was 5GB  Average GB used for season 2.0 GB  Majority of data plans do not allow the rollover of unused data allocations

TAX-AIDE Hot Spot Average Returns Completed 2013 State Meetings7

TAX-AIDE Hot Spots ● The National Office is working with Verizon to obtain a corporate discount that can be used by the Tax-Aide program for hot spots. This would include a device to connect to the Internet. ● If Verizon does not offer service at the site; the site is free to pursue other vendors State Meetings8

TAX-AIDE QUESTIONS???? 2013 State Meetings9