Even while he eats lunch at the Breakfast Club, Glenn Phillips is never far from his laptop.

"It's my Day-Timer, notebook, account file, everything," Phillips said.

But accessing free Internet service in Houston isn't always so simple.

"In the past, I would have to pull up to an office building that I thought might have wi-fi to get online, before I had a phone card," Phillips said.

In some parts of Houston, that will soon change.

Mayor Bill White, along with the Houston Public Libary, launched the city's first wireless empowered community access network.

"It's about how we bridge that digital divide," White said.

The first one is in the Gulfton area, but the goal is to provide free high-speed Internet access to 10 other low-income neighborhoods.

"You do not get familiar with or comfortable with the use of technology unless you are exposed to it," Mayor White said.

In the end, Houston will launch up to 150 community access locations through the city, using money from Earthlink, the company that orginally planned to build a wireless network for the city.

Back at the Breakfast Club, Phillps was glad to hear about the free Internet access.

"As long as the ease of use and connectivity is favorable to the consumer," he said.

And that's what it's all about.