Residents of Sulu and Tawi-Tawi can now access the internet using the free Wi-Fi hotspots deployed by the Department of Information and Technology (DICT) in some areas recently.
(MANILA BULLETIN)
The DICT said Monday, March 8, that its Mindanao cluster has activated new free Wi-Fi hotspots in select areas in the southern most islands of the country.
“Ever since I assumed office as Secretary of your Department of Information and Communications Technology in 2019, my priority had been to establish Free Wi-Fi sites in as many public offices and areas in the country as possible,” DICT Secretary Gregorio B. Honasan II said.
“Now, we are glad to announce that with this recent deployment, all 81 provinces of the Philippines are now connected to Free Wi-Fi,” he added.
According to the DICT, this is the first time that locations in Sulu were connected to the program.
The department said new free Wi-Fi hotspots were activated in Parang District Hospital and Mindanao State University in Sulu.
New Wi-Fi hotspots were also activated in Bongao Municipal Town Hall, Tawi-Tawi Provincial Capitol, and Mindanao State University (Tawi-Tawi College of Technology and Oceanography) in Tawi-Tawi.
“Through Free Wi-Fi, we to want reach places where there is minimal to no fiber and tower,” Honasan said.
“Thus, we are currently carrying out Free Wi-Fi installation to target more geographically isolated and disadvantaged sites through the use of very small aperture terminal or VSAT Satellite,” he added.
As of March 3, the DICT launched 8,145 sites in various national government agencies, hospitals, public schools, state universities and colleges, airports and terminals, and other public places nationwide.