DICT

Following the appointment of Eliseo M. Rio Jr. as acting secretary of the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT), Malacanang has promoted assistant secretary John Henry Naga as the agency's newest undersecretary.

The Better Broadband Alliance said the new player should be flexible and versatile enough to consider that it will likely not have a free ride on existing infrastructure,

DICT acting secretary Eliseo M. Rio Jr. said the IT-BPO sector is moving towards artificial intelligence that would require ?very fast and very expensive Internet connectivity?.

The initiative is the government's response to the World Summit on Information Society Plan of Action which the Philippines was a signatory.

The National ID System is a consolidation of the existing government-initiated ID system into one integrated system that can be used to verify the identities of individuals in availing of public services or engaging in using public transportation.

The issuance of the circular, dated May 11, is the first act of Eliseo M. Rio Jr. since being appointed as acting secretary of the DICT on Tuesday, May 8.

The appointment comes six months after Rodolfo Salalima, the DICT?s first secretary, resigned from his post.

The issue of spectrum is worth a close look, because it affects the telecommunications sector on a fundamental level.

In filing Senate Resolution (SR) No. 603, Sen. Leila De Lima also expressed serious concern over Pres. Rodrigo Duterte's apparent partiality to pick a telecommunications (telco) firm from China as the country's third telecommunications carrier.

In a lengthy post on Wednesday, Feb. 7, DICT officer-in-charge Eliseo Rio Jr. said PLDT chair Manny V. Pangilinan has agreed to forego the payment of the 3G frequency it acquired from Cure in 2011.