Bolivia kicks off school year with ban on cellphones

Bolivia began to instrumentality a prohibition connected cellphones successful classrooms Monday, arsenic the schoolhouse twelvemonth starts successful the landlocked South American nation

LA PAZ, Bolivia -- Bolivia began to instrumentality a prohibition connected cellphones successful classrooms Monday, arsenic the schoolhouse twelvemonth starts successful the landlocked South American nation.

Children successful Bolivia, and teachers, volition beryllium asked to support their cellphones successful lockers oregon successful their bags portion they’re successful classrooms. The measurement volition beryllium implemented successful some backstage and nationalist schools and applies to pupils of each ages.

Several countries person already implemented mobile telephone bans successful schools successful an effort to summation the attraction span of children and trim distractions, including Brazil, France and South Korea.

The measurement was drafted nether the medication of Rodrigo Paz, a centrist who won past year's predetermination and took bureau successful November, pursuing 2 decades of regularisation by the left-wing Movement Toward Socialism.

Paz said connected Monday that helium does not reason technology, adding that helium is attempting to amended connectivity for Bolivian students by utilizing satellites to link schools successful agrarian areas to the internet.

“I volition not springiness you Wi-Fi to ticker movies,” Paz said during an lawsuit successful Copacabana, a municipality connected the shores of Lake Titicaca, the world's highest navigable lake. “I americium going supply connectivity truthful that pupils tin download knowledge.”

Last year, the Paz medication lifted a prohibition against foreign-owned net outer providers that had been enactment successful spot by the erstwhile government. Bolivia has agelong relied connected a Chinese-built outer to supply net successful distant areas, but the outer known arsenic the Tupac Katari is getting aged and has constricted capabilities. Bolivia has immoderate of the lowest net speeds successful the region.

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