Tech provider PLDT is strengthening its home and enterprise segments amid continuing growth even as income from its wireless business continue to decline.
Positive performance of the five out of nine sub-sectors of the electronics industry drive growth which contributed 96.65% share in the cumulative total value of the industry. Semiconductors, which grew 16.3% in the first quarter of 2017, remained to be country?s top electronics exports.
The Philippines is seeking designation as an International Searching Authority and International Preliminary Examining Authority under the Patent Cooperation Treaty.
With the National Broadband Plan (NBP) expected to take three years to finish, Sen. Paulo Benigno ?Bam? Aquino IV urged the government to focus also on getting more competition by encouraging more players to join the market to improve the country's Internet speed.
A first in the country, the medicine loan service allows employees from the government and private sector with payroll accounts with Landbank, including overseas Filipinos, to electronically order and purchase medicines through their mobile phones.
Sen. Bam Aquino said that there is a need to ?come up with an inventory of all e-government services available in order for government to improve information and communications technology (ICT) policies and services in the country.?