📋 Tender Overview
The Wi-Fi Brazil Program coordinated by the Ministry of Communications MCom has already installed by December this year 21300 free broadband internet points via satellite and terrestrial connections throughout the country. In total the initiative benefits more than 11 million Brazilians in around 3200 cities. Of this total 16195 connections 76.2 were installed in schools and almost 70 14824 of internet points are located in rural areas. Wi-Fi Brasil has as one of its major objectives to connect all public elementary schools in the country. Therefore our program serves these communities and populations that are isolated and deficient in alternative terrestrial infrastructure emphasized the secretary National Telecommunications Agency Nathalia Lobo. Wi-Fi Brasil installs antennas and routers free of charge in specific locations such as schools settlements Basic Health Units UBS indigenous quilombola or riverside communities as well as community telecenters for example. They are all access points with connection speeds that vary between 10 and 20 megabits per second for satellite connections.The antennas receive the signal sent by the Geostationary Defense and Strategic Communications Satellite SGDC a Brazilian piece of equipment that is in Earth orbit 36 thousand kilometers away. Developed by MCom the program is carried out in partnership with Telebras.
