Internet at Half Price and High Speed for People with Disabilities Coming + Details

The head of the State Welfare Organization announced that operators have agreed to increase internet speed and bandwidth for people with disabilities and to halve its cost, and said these measures must be implemented by the end of the week.

The head of the country's welfare organization announced the agreement of the operators to increase the speed and bandwidth of the Internet and reduce its cost to half the price for people with disabilities and said that the implementation of these measures should be done by the end of the week.

Ambassador Arjan - Social Group: The head of the country's welfare organization announced the agreement of operators to provide half-price and high-speed internet to groups with disabilities, including the blind.

Seyyed Javad Hosseini this morning at the International White Cane Day ceremony, emphasizing the acceleration of the implementation of agreements related to digital accessibility for the disabled, called for the acceleration of the implementation process of increasing the bandwidth, improving the speed of the Internet and reducing the cost of using the Internet to half the price for the target groups.

He emphasized: These measures should be implemented by the end of this week. In the first phase of this plan, people covered by the welfare organization are included.

In the same ceremony, Gholamreza Rezaifred - Head of the Secretariat of Coordination and Follow-up of the Country's Adaptation Headquarters announced the holding of a meeting with the Ministry of Communications, Infrastructure Communications Company and operators with the aim of promoting digital accessibility for people with disabilities, and at the same time, referring to the main points of this meeting, he said: In this meeting, the facilities that can be provided to facilitate the access of deaf people to help lines, as well as allocating more bandwidth, increasing the speed of the Internet and reducing the cost of the Internet for people with disabilities, including the blind and visually impaired It was checked.

According to him, the operators have agreed to implement these measures in the framework of their social responsibility, and the follow-up of its implementation is currently underway.

The head of the welfare organization announced the addition of 105 ambulances to the social emergency fleet by the end of this year and explained the new plans of this organization.

Seyed Sattar Hashemi, the Minister of Communications and Information Technology of Iran, in a meeting with the ambassador of Qatar in Tehran, emphasized the necessity of developing joint cooperation in the field of digital technologies, communication and strengthening convergence in international specialized forums, especially the Mukhtar Conference of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).

During the war, the Ministry of Communications allocated special support and resources to prevent the disruption of communication services and maintain the stability of internal messengers; An issue that the deputy minister of this ministry spoke of the necessity of continuing financing for the reconstruction and development of the country's communication network by explaining the damage caused to the infrastructure.