DICT acting secretary Eliseo M. Rio Jr. said the participation fee of P1 million paid by Now Telecom might have cost a significant impact on its mother company, Now Corporation, whose operating income only stood at P6.3 million in 2017.
Sitel Academy stood out for offering free contact center skills training to students, jobseekers, and even persons with disabilities in Metro Manila and in the countryside.
IBPAP president and CEO Rey Untal says the BPO industry will fall short of its projected growth of 100,000 new workers due to some uncertainties and the Train law.
But on the day it bought bid documents, Now Corporation filed a case against the NTC to question ?the P700-million participation security, multi-billion peso performance security, and P10-million non-refundable appeal fee,? according to a tweet by Philippine Daily Inquirer?s Miguel Camus.
The Open Access Bill, or House Bill No. 6557, passed on third reading by the House of Representatives and was transmitted to the Senate late in 2017. Its counterpart bill in the upper chamber, Senate Bill No. 1763, remains pending on second reading.
The Computer Professionals' Union (CPU) called for both the government and the public ?to be more critical and discerning of a policy, which centralizes and makes a tempting target of massive amounts of personal information.?
