Under the bill, the Philippine Space Agency office and its research facilities will be housed in at least 30 hectare of land within the Clark Special Economic Zone in Pampanga and Tarlac.
The proposed law seeks to create ICT Centers (ICTCs), or ICT Hubs, in every legislative district in the country with the view of enhancing the access of every Filipino to information.
The Philippines is closer to the establishment of its own space agency with Senate Bill 1983 or the Philippine Space Act now hurdling second reading in the Senate.
Although there's a just a few days left before Congress takes a break for the May 13 elections, top officials of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) are optimistic that the bill creating a national space agency would still be approved by the legislature.
The current debate on the new major player?s franchise validity would not hinder the government?s plan to accelerate the build-up of more telecommunications infrastructure, the Department of Information and Communications (DICT) said on Wednesday, Jan. 30.
Local firm Transpacific Broadband Group International (TBGI) is eyeing to create a subsidiary that will build cell site towers to be offered to telcos for common use under lease.
The NBP is the flagship initiative of the government for the acceleration of the deployment of fiber-optic cables and wireless technologies to improve the Internet connection speed in the country.
The DICT said common tower providers and telecommunication firms need not worry about securing permits for telecommunication towers as the agency will take care of that concern.
