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“The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) has set up free public WiFi hotspots set up in six pilot areas. It will be formally opened to the public on Jul 24, the first day of the DOST’s National Science and Technology Week celebration at the SMX Convention Center in Pasay City,” reports Rainier Allan Ronda in The Philippine Star.
The six areas for the pilot test of the project are:
- Rizal Park in Manila
- Quezon City Hall
- Quezon City Memorial Circle
- Philippine Coconut Authority (Philcoa) building (Ellipitical Road, Quezon City)
- Land Transportation Office (East Avenue, Quezon City)
- Social Security System complex (East Avenue, Quezon City)
DOST Undersecretary Louis Napoleon Casambre, who is also the executive director of the department’s Information and Communications Technology Office (ICTO), explained: “We’ll be removing the 256 kilobytes per second speed limit through best effort only. This just means that if few are online at a site, then it will be very fast.”
He added, “Testing would be to designed capacity. We can only do estimates at this point because we are still in the process of implementing.”
The DOST-ICTO hopes to set up the next free WiFi hotspots in Pasig City and Madaluyong City.
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