Visiting European Commission (EC) president Ursula von der Leyen on Monday, July 31, said the European Union (EU) is looking at extending its underwater fiber-optic cable project to the Philippines.
The Philippines has achieved a global milestone by securing the vice chairmanship of a major working group within the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), the United Nations (UN) agency for telecommunications and information and communications technology (ICT).
The business groups stated that the Open Access bill will address the legal obstacles and binding constraints which have long stifled the growth of the Philippine Internet industry in a world increasingly reliant on connectivity to function and advance.
Japanese tech giant Epson bared a new lineup of products and plans to take its sustainability efforts a step further in the country at its recently concluded Fusion, the 14th iteration of the company’s annual media event.
Experts assert that the adoption of Open RAN standards offers substantial advantages to telecommunications networks, including enhanced interoperability, cost reduction for 5G infrastructure, and extended Internet connectivity to underserved regions.
Addressing law graduates, SC justice Mario Lopez emphasized that AI is a mere tool for human utilization and not intended to replace humans, especially in the legal profession.
Purported “tech expert” and Manila Bulletin section editor Art Samaniego was the subject of criticisms from local netizens this week after claiming in an online interview that the right to free speech of controversial pastor Apolonio Quiboloy was violated when YouTube terminated the channels of entities owned by or affiliated with him.
The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) has endorsed the Socioeconomic Research Portal for the Philippines (SERP-P), the country’s first and free electronic repository of socioeconomic materials produced by the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS).
The new type of cloud infrastructure deployment will allow organizations with low latency or data residency requirements to run their applications closer to end users and on-premises data centers within the nation’s capital.
On July 5, Better Internet PH together with nine organizations representing the business sector, ICT industry, and civil society signed a Joint Statement of Support for the immediate passage of the proposed Open Access in Internet Services Act.
