CALOOCAN CITY, (PIA) -- Quezon City has been chosen as the pilot city to be installed with WiKonek Community Wifi, which will provide users with free internet connection every day.

Through the Community Wifi Advocates led by its Chief Inspirational Officer General Eliseo Rio, Barangay Payatas was chosen to be the first community to be provided with 50MB of free internet connection.

 “QC has always been a darling for pilot projects—creative ideas that need to be tested on a smaller scale before being rolled out for maximum impact. We’re all excited to see where this WiKonek Community Wifi will lead us and how the residents of Barangay Payatas can benefit from this,” Mayor Joy Belmonte said during the project launch.

Belmonte said, through the project program all QCitizens will be able to connect to the programs and services of the local government.

“We can also see this as a means to bridge the local government with our QCitizens, especially now that we’re moving our services online. We have QC E-Services where our vaccination registration and financial assistance are linked. Through this, we can reach more constituents and they can access our programs without having to travel to the city hall,” Belmonte added.

Rio said that Quezon City is the perfect city to launch the new project since the mayor believed in the power of technology.

“Through our partnership with QC Government, we will install at least 1000 access points in the city especially in depressed areas that have low internet connection access before the end of the year,” Rio said.

Rio said the connectivity has a “fiber-like” internet speed through the use of the Terragraph technology of Facebook Connectivity. (QC PAISD/PIA-NCR)