Senators in the Philippines are actively involved in the Internet-for-all project, in order to provide public areas, such as schools and universities, with free Wi-Fi access. Currently, more than 43%   of the Filipino population browse the Internet, and these projects aim at further improving the Internet penetration in the country.

Since the time the “Free Wi-Fi Internet Access in Public Places” project of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) was launched, in July 2015, many initiatives have been put in place in the Philippines to improve free Wi-Fi access in public areas.The project, originally intended to enable free Wi-Fi in in municipalities’ town plazas, was expanded at the end of November 2015 to enable Wi-Fi in other public areas such as schools, hospitals, train stations, airports, seaports and parks.

The Senators of the Philippines believe that Internet should be at everyone’s disposal and have started many initiatives in order to make the Internet-for-all idea a reality. In addition, the economy of the country can largely benefit from an increased connectivity. According to a World Bank study,a 1.38% increase in Gross Domestic Price can be reached by virtue of every 10% increase in broadband Internet connectivity. At present, Internet penetration in the Philippines is 43.5%, that is to say more than 44,000,000 of the total 102,3 million Filipinos use the Internet.

An effective way to boost the economy of the country is to provide Filipinos with free Wi-Fi access in educational institutes, so as to improve collaborative and interactive learning. In this respect, Senator Paolo Benigno Aquino IV  drafted the Bill 1050 last August, according to which academic institutions should be provided free Wi-Fi access points. Last September, the senator pointed out that only 26% of public schools in the Philippines have access to the Internet and that it was very important to allow students and teacher to benefit from free Wi-Fi, so that they could go online to develop their learning and do relevant research. For this reason, he created the K-12 Basic Education Program, which adopts a tablet-based learning system in schools. (more…)

On September 5th,2016, the European Commission issued a new European regulation about roaming prices within Europe. The regulation aims to put an end to high roaming prices from mobile carriers.

European Commission wants to stop the roaming system in Europe, which means that they don’t want EU citizens with a mobile plan service to pay more when they use their phone abroad. This concerns only European countries. In fact, nowadays people going abroad pay a higher cost to send an SMS, make calls or use the internet. The EU Commission decided to cap the prices of roaming with this new regulation, in order to allow consumers to access Internet from mobile when going to another European country. The regulation will enter into force in 2017 and seems bring to a close the cross-border mobile prices. (more…)

The European commission is working on a new project that aims to offer free Wi-Fi for citizens in the bigger European cities by 2020.

This project is made of two parts: one, the creation of free Wi-Fi hotspots all around Europe and two, the propagation of the 5th generation wireless system (5G). Although this project is very challenging, the European Commission is motivated and plans o deploy free hotspots in the main public areas of the biggest European cities, in order to offer the possibility of free internet access for all EU citizens. (more…)

British high-rank officers have threatened to release the porn browsing history of soldiers who are currently using Wi-Fi to access blocked sites. Furthermore, this penalty may now also apply to regular users misusing public Wi-Fi.

Soldiers at the Royal School of Military Engineering are currently in trouble for being caught watching pornography while connected to Wi-Fi. According to the webzine the Sun, troops have accessed blocked sites 21,000 times, visited gambling sites 2,321 times, and watched violent clips 206 times, in the span of one week.

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Bloomberg reported that Apple’s wireless router division was disbanded and that might mean the end of Apple router production.

Bloomberg, the American finance group, reported that Apple might stop its commercialization of routers as the engineering team that was working on products like the AirPort Extreme, AirPort Express and AirPort Time Capsule was disbanded over the last year. (more…)

In a previous article, we made a list of the best courses about Wifi networking you could attend to improve your knowledge .
Today, find out more information about the best Wifi certifications for professionals, a good way for you to demonstrate your skills in Wifi networking.

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