Philippines to install 23,000 free public Wi-Fi hotspots

The Philippines has revealed plans to install 23,100 free Wi-Fi sites to help adapt the country to remote work and education during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) said on Friday that it had earmarked 7.7bn pesos ($155m) to increase the number of free Wi-Fi …

[randon8154]

Would probably never known it if theregister hasn't made an article about it, thanks

Do you known which ISP will be used ? The article don't mention it

[Lee D]

$6700 per wifi point.

Makes me wonder what they're deploying and what they're connected to.

[GrumpyKiwi]

Dunno about you, but when I tried just throwing a WAP into the middle of a road, it didn't provide me with any wireless. I ended up having to attach it to a pole, provide it with electricity and an ethernet connection to the internet. Which might have some costs associated with it like labour/permits/materials. Just saying.

[randon8154]

Deleted my previous message : (I though it was 15 M USD instead of 155 M)

You are right... 6700 USD is overpriced, unless something can explain it...

[Anonymous Coward]

That's easy... "gifts" for the friends and relatives of those in charge of it.

Just like every infrastructure contract in PH.

[EnviableOne]

depends if its a controller based solution from cisco or not ....

you want the controllers to talk +$$$$

you want to do both 2.4 and 5 +$$$$$

you want it when +$$$$$$$

you are overseas +$$$$$$$