The project will start at the end of this year.
The European Union will finance a project to equip Wi-Fi access points with free high-speed Internet in public places. The EU Council and the European Parliament reached an agreement on allocating budgetary financing for the project, Ukrinform reports..
"The WiFi4EU project will provide free Internet in public buildings, hospitals, parks and other public places.
Multilingual portal WiFi4EU will be a free, protected and secured high-speed Internet connection, "- explained in the leading institution of the European Union.
Such Internet will be accessible to the general public.
The implementation of the project is that the EU budget will provide funding to local authorities in member countries to establish wireless Internet access equipment. It is expected that this financial scheme will begin to operate from the end of 2017.