24/10/2019 (Agence Europe) – On Thursday 24 October, the Commission announced the names of the 1,700 municipalities that will receive 15,000 euros in support to set up public and free Wi-Fi access points under the European WiFi4EU programme. The total budget for this call for tenders was 26.7 million euros. The call for applications, the third of its kind, which took place from 19 to 20 September 2019, was, like the previous ones, met with great interest: some 11,000 applications were received, with nearly 2,000 applications submitted in the first two seconds. The project applies the principle of ‘first come, first served’, with a minimum of 15 vouchers per country. In its press release, the European Commission recalls that 6,200 municipalities have already received a cheque under the two previous calls for projects and that a fourth should be organised before the end of the year. (SPj)