Free Wi-Fi reaches another park of Baku

By Azernews

By Rashid Shirinov

Baku Telephone Communication Ltd has expanded the coverage of free Wi-Fi to another park of the capital city, Trend reported on September 26.

Now visitors of the park located between Port Baku Residence and Port Baku Mall will be able to enjoy free Internet access.

The Public Wi-Fi project has been implemented in Baku since March 2017 in order to expand the coverage of the wireless network of the capital city. The goal of the project is to provide residents and guests of Baku with access to the Internet in places of mass congestion.

Currently, the free Wi-Fi project covers the territory of the National Seaside Park, Icherisheher, Sahil Park, Sabir Park and Khagani Park, Heydar Aliyev Center, Winter Park, Park of Officers, Huseyn Javid, Akhundov, Samad Vurgun and Mugan Parks. In the near future, free access to Wi-Fi will also cover the territory of Dede Gorgud Park and Narimanov Park.

Since the launch of the service, about a million connections have been recorded in these territories.

To use the service, one will need to enable the option of Wi-Fi networks detection on his/her mobile device, select ‘Baku loves you’ network and pass through authentication process via the phone number.

Azerbaijan ranks first among the countries of Post-Soviet region for the level of broadband internet penetration. Moreover, Azerbaijan is the 58th country in the world over number of its Internet users.

The number of Azerbaijani Internet users exceeded 6 million, accounting for 61.1 percent of the country’s population, in 2016, according to Statistical project Internet Live Stats.