Managing Director of the Universal Access Fund, Hugh Cross, says a tender call for a proposal to provide the islandwide network has already been issued.

Starting this month, 31 of the 165 schools will be involved in a pilot project costing just under $500 million.

Mr. Cross told the Jamaica Information Service that the programme to facilitate the simultaneous broadcast of lectures from one school to another, thereby assisting students who might not have a teacher in a particular subject area.

The Universal Access Fund Company was established last year to collect the universal service levy from telecommunications companies and manage these funds for disbursement to Cabinet-approved projects of a universal service nature.

Currently, the fund has an accumulated value of over $1.2 billion.

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