The Mexico City managed to get a Guinness World Records for being the city with the highest number of wifi free on the planet.
From the Paseo de la Reforma, the head of government, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, stated that the capital of the country already has 21,500 points of free access to the network, surpassing cities such as Tokyo Japan, which has 11,000 centers.
The city also left behind cities such as Berlin, Germany, which counts 10,000 points wifi, in addition to New York, USA, with 3,000 and Vancouver, Canada, with 590.
“We are a innovative city and rights. Innovative because it uses technology, in particular this digital connectivity technology to open rights to the inhabitants of the Mexico City. These 21,500 points are for the benefit and to create rights: the right to the internet for all and for all, that is what we are achieving today in the city ”, he stated.
The holder of the Digital Agency for Public Innovation, José Antonio Peña Merino, highlighted the growth of free wifi hotspots enabled in three years, for example, in 2018 the city had 98 points.
“How much did it cost the inhabitants of the Mexico City become the most connected city in the world? Zero pesos, there was no additional peso disbursed and on the contrary, for two years we have saved 864 million pesos in the connectivity contracts from the city ”, he highlighted.
Sheinbaum Brown announced that the goal is to reach 30,000 free access points throughout the Mexico City by the year 2024.
On this point, Peña Merino specified that next year they will be enabled free wifi hotspots in all public elementary and secondary schools, as well as in the high schools of the Institute of Higher Secondary Education.
It will also include the Health University, the Rosario Catellanos Institute of Higher Studies, the Autonomous University of Mexico City, as well as in the 1,800 housing units in the capital.
Recognition
The head of government stated that it would be the second Guinness World Records that is achieved in its mandate.
“There are two, the Cablebus, the Cableway Longest in the World and now the Most Connected City in the World ”, said the capital’s president.
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Reference-www.eleconomista.com.mx