Comcast announced a pilot program on Thursday to bring low-cost Internet service to public housing residents in Miami-Dade County, Nashville, Philadelphia and Seattle.

Comcast and the ConnectHome initiative of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development set up the program to reduce the digital divide. As many as 40,000 public housing residents in all four cities may be eligible, Comcast said.

At a kickoff ceremony at Rainbow Village, a 90-unit housing development in Miami, Comcast technicians stood ready to install Internet service to residents free of charge for six months. Every household in the complex also got a free laptop computer.

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