In terms of households with Internet connection, the Philippines was at 59th spot with 26.9 subscriptions. However, in the number of individuals using the Internet, the Philippines was ranked only at 106th with 39.7 percent of the population using the Internet.
The National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) officially started on Thursday, Sept.17, its new system for testing the broadband speeds of local ISPs (Internet service providers), which are now comprised basically of telecom firms.
Speaking at the Bahay ng Alumni in UP Diliman in Quezon City, Poe said she would allocate seven percent of the country's gross domestic product for infrastructure development, particularly for the improvement of Internet service as well as roads, railways, airports, and seaports.
Instead of merely testing Internet speeds, the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) should conduct an audit to assess the coverage and quality of service of telecommunications companies (telcos) to pressure them into making Internet access faster and cheaper, Sen. Francis "Chiz" Escudero said.
The government has launched the first-ever electronic Inmate Management Information System (IMIS) in the country to avoid overstaying prisoners in state penitentiaries due to lost records or inaccurate computation of inmate service of sentence.
The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) is set launch this month a "disconnected" Internet node in Cebu province that will allow Internet service providers in the Visayas region to exchange Web traffic without the need to connect to Manila or abroad.
For the first time since Pres. Benigno Aquino III assumed power, Congress has included a bill creating the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) as one of its priorities in its legislative agenda.
Anabatic Technologies, which undertook its IPO in the Indonesian Stock Exchange only last July, also recently opened its business offices in Chennai and Bangalore in India.
The Philippine Startup Roadmap, launched at the recently concluded Geeks on a Beach (GOAB) tech conference in Boracay, is aiming to spawn some 500 startups with an estimated cumulative valuation of $2 billion by 2020.
The ICT Office of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) announced this week that it intends to implement in 2016 the ?Offline Internet for Remote Areas? (OIRA) service as a component of the "Free Wi-Fi Internet Access in Public Places? of the government.
