Five towns soon to offer free Wi-Fi
SOON, residents of five towns will have free access to Wi-Fi in public areas through the “Juan Konek” program of the Department of Science and Technology-Information and Communications Technology Office (DOST-ICTO).
Director Cheryl Ortega of DOST-ICTO Field Operations Office, said free access to Wi-Fi will be made available in selected schools and public areas in San Jacinto, Laoac, Sta. Maria, Tayug and Natividad and Dagupan City.
Ortega said the program, which aims to accelerate economic, social and education opportunities and reduce the digital divide, will cover all 3rd to 6th class municipalities nationwide with a P1.4 billion fund.
Public places will include public libraries, public schools, plazas, town hall, government hospitals and rural health units.
To ensure availability of the service to as many users as possible, a fair usage policy will be implemented where as user registration will be subjected to three different levels with applied data limits per day.
The three registration levels are as follows: device identification with 50 megabite (MB) data per user per day; government passport or identification with allotted 100MB per user per day; and government digital certificate with 300MB per user per day or equivalent to one gigabyte per month.
“If the user consumed all the data allotted for him or her each day, data connection will be automatically stopped to give other user an opportunity to use the free internet connection,” Ortega said adding that the program would like to serve as many people as possible.
Once fully implemented, every user will be alloted 256 kilobits per second (kbps) of bandwidth per day regardless of their level of registration. (VHS/EMS/PIA-1, Pangasinan).
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