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Rogers and Apple partner to support Cowichan Valley students

COWICHAN VALLEY, B.C. — Rogers Communications is working with Apple to provide iPads with free Rogers wireless data plans to students in Vancouver Island’s Cowichan Valley School District to support their educational needs during the Covid-19 pandemic. Along with three months of free LTE wireless data from Rogers, the iPads come pre-equipped with a suite of high-quality educational apps, the news release says. The initiative is designed to ensure equity in access to educational opportunities for students while in-class learning is suspended, while also allowing teachers to plan a more fulsome online educational experience, says the company. In addition, Apple...