Noel Neil Malimban, BSP Northern Luzon director, said this was also their observation a year after BSP Governor Felipe Medalla launched the campaign in Baguio in August 2022.
On Sunday, meat and vegetable merchants, as well as tourists and other market customers, have been granted free Wi-Fi for a year by Project Lightning, said Felipe Puzon, Magalong’s chief of staff and project leader of Baguio’s five-year conversion to “smart city” governance. The group also tested egg-shaped devices attached to the power lines of the Benguet Electric Cooperative that would use its “surface wave” or the magnetic field generated by electric cables to send data directly to households.
“BSP’s task is to produce the list of towns that would require free Wi-Fi,” he said, “so DICT can inspect these areas and determine the resources needed to introduce Wi-Fi.”