Peru announced that all its poorest residents would be hooked up to full solar power. In the end, a huge amount of money was spent and a couple hundred houses were hooked up to very low wattage systems shared by entire villages.<p>India announced they were going to produce a $15 computer for the masses of poor. Well we now have $15 computers, but not from this program, and India still is lacking stable electricity, clean water, and other basics throughout much of the nation.<p>&quot;The Philippines is planning free Wi-Fi services to half of its towns and cities this year and nationwide coverage by end-2016&quot;<p>So the claim being made is half the towns and cities by this year, 2015, within a few months. And total coverage by next year.<p>Most of the land area of the Philippines is remote and rural. Much is mountainous. It would be a remarkable engineering project to have total wifi coverage through the <i>entire</i> country by 2016. Accomplishing it with $32 million in funding would be especially amazing.<p>The chance that this will happen I estimate at 0%. The chance of a modest amount of coverage in certain neighborhoods of larger cities is good. Total coverage by next year isn&#x27;t going to happen, isn&#x27;t going to ever happen for the cited price, and the data point that it is being claimed it will happen by next year shows that those in charge of this program don&#x27;t understand the problem, which means that the actually doable claims (coverage for 50% of all towns and cities by December 2015) are questionable as well.