Guro-gu Completes Upgrade of Aging Public Wi-Fi Infrastructure

Performance Improvement of 220 Aging Public Wi-Fi Zones and Establishment of 6 New Locations Including Hangdong, Guro Market, Maebongsan, and Gaewoongsan

A streetlight equipped with a public Wi-Fi device

Guro-gu (District Mayor Moon Heon-il) has completed the upgrade of aging public Wi-Fi to improve residents' access to information and reduce household communication costs.

This year, the district participated in the Seoul Metropolitan Government's public Wi-Fi upgrade project in the first half of the year and was allocated a budget of 541 million KRW. Adding 45.3 million KRW from the district funds, a total of 586.3 million KRW was invested to complete the performance improvement and new installation of the aging public Wi-Fi system over four months from July to November.

The district replaced aging public Wi-Fi based on Wi-Fi 4 and 5, which had exceeded their service life (7 years), with Wi-Fi 6. Through this project, the performance of public Wi-Fi at 220 locations within the area was significantly improved.

New public Wi-Fi zones were established at six locations in total: Hang-dong (3), Guro Market (1), Maebongsan (1), and Gaewoongsan (1). Installation sites were selected considering factors such as floating population and installation requests from residents.

As a result, the total number of public Wi-Fi installation sites in Guro-gu has increased to 1,276.

The district plans to conduct continuous inspections of equipment operation status and faults to ensure that residents do not experience inconvenience when using the public Wi-Fi service.

A Guro-gu official stated, “We expect residents' satisfaction with the quality of public Wi-Fi services to greatly increase through this project,” and added, “We will continue to operate and manage the service so that residents can conveniently use public Wi-Fi.”

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