Operators have agreed to a plan to provide “half-price, high-speed internet” to groups with disabilities, including the blind.
The head of the State Welfare Organization announced the plan to provide half-price, high-speed internet to groups with disabilities, including the blind.
At the World White Cane Day ceremony, Seyyed Javad Hosseini, emphasizing the acceleration of implementing agreements related to digital accessibility for people with disabilities, called for speeding up the execution of measures to increase bandwidth, improve internet speed, and halve the cost of internet usage for the target groups.
He emphasized: these measures must be implemented by the end of this week.
According to him, in the first phase of this plan those under the coverage of the State Welfare Organization will be included.
According to ISNA, at the same ceremony Gholamreza Rezaeifard, head of the Secretariat of the National Coordination and Follow-up Headquarters for Accessibility, reported holding a meeting with the Ministry of Communications, the Communications Infrastructure Company, and operators aimed at improving digital accessibility for people with disabilities.
Referring to the topics of this meeting, he said: at this session, the facilities that can be provided to facilitate access for deaf people to emergency lines, as well as allocating more bandwidth, increasing internet speed, and halving internet costs for people with disabilities including blind and visually impaired individuals were reviewed.
According to him, the operators have agreed to implement these measures within the framework of their social responsibility and the follow-up of their execution is currently underway.