The World Trade Organization (WTO) has eliminated the tariffs on a total of 201 products being manufactured under the information technology sector. The abolishment follows an accord reached by 54 WTO members last July 18, and was confirmed in a meeting held last July 24 at the WTO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.
In 2014, Globe partnered with Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) to roll out wireless modern network technologies in the Visayas and Mindanao areas to improve coverage and data capacity to meet increasing consumer demand.
The senator said the NTC should ask PLDT why it continues to refuse to connect to the country's own Internet exchange facility called the Philippine Open Internet Exchange (PHOpenIX), which was developed by the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) primarily to allow a faster exchange of data among users.
Telcos have proposed that only the averaged speed of the entire local ISP industry should be published by the NTC and not the individual speed of each operator.
Recent developments and policy changes in Information Technology and Business Process Management (IT/BPM) in the Philippines are making the country ripe for investment and poising it to ride a new wave of revolution in information and communications technology (ICT).
The EU said the compromise agreement also includes strong Net neutrality rules protecting the right of every European to access Internet content, without discrimination.
Smart eMoney Inc. (SMI), the digital financial services unit of PLDT and Smart Communications, has disbursed in 2014 alone over P5.2 billion to more than a million household beneficiaries via over-the-counter (OTC) cash payments.
Tech titans PLDT and IBM have teamed up to offer bundled cloud-based services that are aimed to be a "targeted solution" for small and medium-sized businesses to large enterprises.
