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Armed Forces: Internet

Volume 479: debated on Monday 21 July 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what progress his Department made towards the target for the provision of wireless internet facilities for the Armed Forces by Easter 2008. (206925)

The introduction of the first wireless internet facility commenced in Camp Bastion on 15 May 2008. We currently anticipate that the roll out of WiFi facilities in Iraq and Afghanistan will be complete by the end of 2008.

When the wireless project is completed, we expect that the ratio of internet connections to personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan will have improved from an average of one terminal to 50 personnel to an average of one terminal to 10 personnel where WiFi is available, a 400 per cent. increase.