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Sunday, November 23, 2014

DOST’s FREE PUBLIC WIFI Project Gets Approved With P3-B Budget

The Department of Science and Technology’s (DOST) Free Public Wi-Fi Program has been approved by the Senate and will be rolling out next year.

With the approved budget of P3 billion from the original budget of P338 million, the DOST can now put up 50,872 Wi-Fi hotspots in the country which includes 7,917 public high schools, 38,694 public elementary schools, 113 state colleges, 1,118 public libraries and public space in 1,490 towns in the Philippines.

Ralph Recto, the senate president said that the budget increase for the W-Fi- program was accomplished because the Senate deferred by one year the Department of Budget and Management’s lease-purchase of laptops, which would later be issued to the selected government employees.


He also explained that “I think it is the win-win situation. We set up the access points first. Because right now, teachers, for instance, already own smartphones. Their problem is that they cannot connect to the Internet. Once this is set up, then we bring in the laptops”.

Aside from public schools and municipalities, the hospitals, medical centers, government structures and public spaces like MRT, LRT, airports, sea ports and train station will also be the beneficiaries of the said program.

Source: Philstar

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