Wireless operator Smart Communications said it posted strong growth in mobile data usage among its subscribers in the first half of 2015, fueled initially by a free Internet promo and then sustained by new content and digital services.
The Board of Investment (BOI) is all set for the soft launch on Aug. 19 of the One Window Network (OWN), a cloud-based portal system that allow investors to lodge queries and concerns online.
The Philippine operations of outsourcing giant Accenture announced that it has increased its maternity leave benefit to 120 calendar days of paid leave, from the statutory requirement of 60 days for normal delivery.
Wading into the ICT space, Sen. Ferdinand "Bongbong" R. Marcos Jr. said faster Internet speeds and robust telecommunications systems should be a priority of the next administration.
Business process outsourcing (BPO) firms have stepped up their recruitment of Filipino nurses, following the US Supreme Court verdict upholding Obamacare, or the US Affordable Care Act.
Plans are afoot to enlarge the 24-hectare Cebu Information Technology (IT) Park, a bustling economic zone that hosts some of the world?s largest business process outsourcing (BPO) providers and the back offices of multinational corporations.
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.
