Wi-Fi

Many travelers from the United States in Greece and other countries this week lost a crucial tool to check maps, make reservations, use ride-hailing apps and more because of a cellular data outage that began affecting users of AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon on Wednesday.

State-owned telecommunications company Türk Telekom has announced that it has completed the digital transformation of hundreds of historical and touristic places, museums and ruins in all 81 provinces of the country.

Now that the pandemic is slowly easing off and giving us hope for the future, we are all undoubtedly looking forward to the idea of planning visits and trips around the world. There is nothing better than rekindling that wanderlust traveller within us all, right?

The thirty-six Bulgarian municipalities that have not participated in the WiFi4EU free Wi-Fi initiative in the public sector so far, can now apply for the new competition, the Ministry of Transport Information and Communications announced.

The competition will open on March 17. Municipalities must register in the WiFi4EU portal before that date.

We prevented a hacker attack against the Commission for Personal Data Protection, its Chairman Ventsislav Karadjov told the Bulgarian National Radio. The attempt was made through the wireless Wi-Fi network of the commission, which means that the perpetrator was within the area of the building.

Transport authorities are planning to announce a tender by the end of the month for the installation of routers on hundreds of buses and trolley buses serving the capital so commuters can have internet access.

According to sources, the plan is for a total of 2,500 wi-fi boxes to be installed - 1,000 on regular city buses and the remainder on trolley buses.

Mihajlovic is in China as part of President Aleksandar Vucic's delegation attending the Belt and Road forum.

Sofia. Minister of Education and Science Krasimir Valchev hopes that next week the government will approve BGN 7 million for free internet connection (wi-fi) for 700 schools, he told a roundtable on digital education, Focus News Agency reports. "With these 700, there will be 1,800 with free wi-fi and 600 with none," he said.

LAGOS (Reuters) - Google launched a network of free Wi-Fi hotspots in Nigeria on Thursday, part of its effort to increase its presence in Africa's most populous nation.

European Union municipalities will today apply for European funding for wireless internet. The goal of the project to promote citizens' connectivity through the Internet is by 2025 to provide public services - municipal administrations, libraries and hospitals - with free Internet access.