Telecom regulator stresses review of Wifi Go once more

Macao Post and Telecommunications Bureau will undertake a comprehensive review of its outsourced free access wireless broadband service, WiFi Go, it stressed again in a reply to legislator Chan Meng Kam’s written enquiry.
Last month, the Audit Commission slammed WiFi Go as being somewhat ‘useless’ as the city’s telecommunication regulator has failed to clearly orientate the service and its target users, as well as being slack in its supervision of the service’s operation and quality.
Claiming it accepts and agrees with the suggestions of the Commission, the Bureau said it will intensify the monitoring mechanism of the service, adding that the positioning of the free WiFi service will be re-examined.
CTT is also considering gradually reducing the number of WiFi spots in public entities in order to ensure that public expenditure on the service is reasonable, it said, adding other technical support might also be applied to reduce cost and improve efficiency of the service.
Wifi Go was launched in September 2010 by the former Bureau of Telecommunications Regulation (DSRT), which merged with Macao Post last month to form CTT.
According to the audit report, there were 183 access points for the service as of March 2016, with the total cost amounting to some MOP161.3 million (US$20.2 million).