Smart said content services such as mobile music, books, magazines, games, and video saw a 121-percent surge to over 15,000 terabytes (or 15 million gigabyte) of data exchanged through its network for the first half of 2014.
Early this month, Globe Telecom also issued a statement claiming that it had the fastest wireless Internet service in the country, citing data from OpenSignal, which ?crowdsources? cell phone signal strength.
The global healthcare information technology industry is estimated to be growing at a steady 10-percent year-on-year growth and is expected to hit $162 billion in 2015. A huge portion of this goes to outsourced healthcare information management and leading the charge is the United States.
For the first four months of 2014, the number of blocked numbers due to reported spamming activities increased by an average of 450 percent from a year ago.
The commercial activation of Globelines? interconnection with PLDT began July 31, allowing landline customers of service providers to realize substantial savings as they no longer have to pay for long distance charges when calling one another.
Telco giant PLDT has announced the deployment of 5,000 new fourth-generation base stations to bring fast wireless connectivity to nearly all cities and municipalities in the country in the coming months.
The new fiber link also strengthens the resiliency of PLDT domestic fiber-optic network (DFON) by establishing a third link to the island of Mindanao via Bohol and Misamis Oriental province.
PLDT is investing $2 million (P86 million) in the project that will double the current bandwidth capacity of the only transpacific cable that directly links Southeast Asia and the Philippines to the US Mainland.
The consortium is the first alliance in the Philippines seeking to develop IoE solutions which would make devices and processes ?smarter? and more connected.
