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Based on the various news reports, the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) has a target of providing as much as 250,000 free Wi-Fi sites across the Philippines, by the end of the term of former President Rodrigo Duterte. This is certainly a laudable project and yet toward
Quezon City 4th district Rep. Marvin Rillo has highlighted the need for more free public Internet or Wi-Fi hotspots, saying that such facilities help address the needs of the common Filipino.
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“We desperately need more physical locations where Filipinos who
MANILA - Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) Secretary Ivan John Uy on Friday vowed to renew and reactivate the "dead" free Wi-Fi service areas in three months. During the House of Representatives appropriations committee hearing on DICT's proposed budget of PHP 7.2 billion for 2023, Uy disclosed that the department's Free Wi-Fi for All - Free Public Internet Access Program is no longer operational in many locations. "I was aghast when I found out that most areas have terminated their (free Wi-Fi) services as of Aug. 31, 2021," he said. "And there was no effort at all to renew those (sic) connectivity." Aside from reviving the connectivity of the free public Wi-Fi in certain areas, Uy also proposed to create a streamlined system to ease the burden of renewal of subscriptions to free Wi-Fi service providers. Northern Samar Rep. Paul Daza noted that the government's Free Public Wi-Fi program's target since 2016 was
(File photo) TACLOBAN CITY - Free public Wi-Fi has been installed in 217 sites in Eastern Visayas in the past four years, prioritizing health facilities and Covid-19 vaccination sites, the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) said on Tuesday. In 2021 alone, the DICT has spent at least PHP26.8 million to carry out the project in the region's six provinces, responding to growing demand for connectivity, DICT Eastern Visayas Regional Director Felix Tabanao Jr. said. Of the 217 sites covered by the free Wi-Fi project, 120 are in Leyte, 41 in Southern Leyte, 37 in Eastern Samar, 12 in Biliran, six in Samar, and one in Northern Samar. "Since 2020, the DICT has been prioritizing the roll-out and improvement of ICT equipment and infrastructure throughout the country, particularly in public hospitals, vaccination sites, and Covid-19 facilities to support the government initiatives in abating the effects of ongoing pandemic," Tabanao told the Philippine Ne