Free Wi-Fi coverage expands
By Rashid Shirinov
The Huseyn Javid Park becomes Baku’s new free Wi-Fi park while the coverage will further be expanded.
Currently, the free Wi-Fi project covers the territory of Icherisheher, National Seaside Park, the park near Heydar Aliyev Center, Winter Park, Park of Officers, and parks Sahil, Akhundov, Sabir and Khagani, a source in the telecommunication market of Azerbaijan told Trend on August 18.
Work to expand the coverage of the wireless network has been carried out since March in the framework of the Public Wi-Fi project. The goal of the project is to provide residents and guests of the capital with access to the Internet in places of mass congestion.
Since the launch of the service, over 500,000 connections have been recorded in these territories.
In the near future, free access to Wi-Fi will also cover the territory of Dede Gorgud park.
To use the service, one needs to enable the option of Wi-Fi networks detection on his/her mobile device, select ‘Baku loves you’ network and pass through authentication process via the phone number.
Azerbaijan ranks first among the countries of Post-Soviet region for the level of broadband internet penetration. Moreover, Azerbaijan is the 58th country in the world over number of its Internet users. Statistical project Internet Live Stats noted that the number of Azerbaijani Internet users has exceeded 6 million, accounting for 61.1 percent of the country’s population.
The signal of the digital broadcasting covers approximately 99 percent of Azerbaijan, while over 75 percent of the country’s population has access to the Internet.
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Rashid Shirinov is AzerNews’ staff journalist, follow him on Twitter: @RashidShirinov
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