Tim, Vodafone and Wind Tre have announced that they are excluding Dad's platforms from the gigabyte consumption expected in their smartphone subscriptions. The decision was made at the invitation of the government, in an attempt to reduce the digital divide among students stuck at home by Covid-19
(photo: Steve Riot via Pixabay) Tim, Vodafone and Wind Tre have announced that they exclude distance learning platforms (Dad) from the gigabyte consumption foreseen in their subscriptions for smartphones and tablets. The decision came after the Ministers of Education Lucia Azzolina, for Equal Opportunities and the Elena Bonetti Family and for Technological Innovation and Digitization Paola Pisano, together with the Minister of Economic Development Stefano Patuanelli, invited the three telecommunication "to identify solutions that make it easier for children to follow lessons remotely" during the Covid-19 pandemic.Tim and Vodafone have made Dad's free service available since Tuesday 17 November, while Wind Tre he instead reported with a press release that the new system will start on Monday 23 November. In practice, the millions of students who are currently forced to study from home due to the anti-coronavirus measures will be able to use their smartphones as a hotspot to access the main Dad platforms, without consuming any gigabytes.
Since the pandemic began, in fact, inequalities within society have been worsening: even an issue such as connectivity becomes "an essential element of social inclusion", as Minister Patuanelli underlined, above all in a context such as school. In addition, with the renewed school closures during this second wave of Covid-19, protests from high school students who are asking to be able to return to class again are multiplying throughout Italy. The digital divide and the numerous flaws of Dad do not allow everyone to effectively guarantee the right to education and, on the contrary, risk increasing the scourge of early school leaving in Italy.