Government will install 2,000 Wi-Fi hotspots across Uganda in a move that will extend internet access. The free Wi-Fi hotspots installation programme will be rolled out in every location where government’s national backbone infrastructure exists.
Government has so far installed 600 Wi-Fi hotspots with 300 of these situated in regional cities and another 300 in Kampala.
Whereas Dr Hatwib Mugasa, the National Information Technology Authority executive director, did not comment on the reliability of Wi-Fi hotspots, it remains an issue that will need to be resolved.
The $75m the Regional Communications Infrastructure Programme, funded by the World Bank has registered significant gains with government’s plan to extend Wi-Fi across the country based on extension of the geographic reach of broadband connectivity across the country.
