2024-01-12 12:53:00
The Ministry of Development and Social Assistance, Family and Fight Against Hunger (MDS), under the command of Minister Wellington Dias, joined the Ministry of Communications, led by Juscelino Filho, to create a strategy that brings broadband internet to the poorest places in Brazil , thus allowing low-income people to access the Internet.
According to information, the initiative will prioritize locations that have almost 20 million people registered in the Single Registry (CadÚnico), with more than 13.5 million benefiting from Bolsa Família in the Northeast and North. The ministers participated in a meeting last Wednesday (10) to discuss the matter and outline strategies.
To bring broadband internet to rural areas, outskirts of urban centers and difficult-to-access locations, the Federal Government, through the National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES), increased the offer of credit to the telecommunications sector by R$1 .1 billion, through Fust.
The Management Council of the Telecommunications Services Universalization Fund (Fust) approved in 2023 the ministries’ project that will benefit 2,315 localities, 1,959 villages and 356 hamlets with more than 19.7 million people in the nine states of the Northeast with broadband internet. and another 280.5 thousand from Pará registered with CadÚnico.
Telecommunications service providers and other entities with activities compatible with the projects now have access to credit for application in the initiatives. Fust resources are intended to stimulate, expand, use and improve the quality of telecom networks and services and reduce regional inequalities.
“This will provide solutions, for example, for indigenous communities, forest peoples, riverside dwellers, quilombolas. Some communities, towns, settlements will have internet access guaranteed and this will make a set of other services available to this part of the population”, explained Wellington Dias.
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