Sen. Grace Poe has urged the Department of Education (DepEd) to heighten crucial partnerships with telcos and the private sector to enable indigent learners...
Lawmakers are calling on local telcos to find a way to speed up the slow Internet speed in the provinces with the opening for public schools fast approaching on Oct. 5.
Sen. Grace Poe has asked government regulators and telcos to reconcile their inconsistent data on the number of cell towers in order to have a clear basis for ramping up efforts to boost connectivity in the country.
Under the bill filed by Sen. Grace Poe, interoperability or the capacity of government altogether to operate online in a standardized manner will be implemented.
In an earlier hearing conducted by the Senate public services committee, Sen. Grace Poe asked for the submission of several reports to find out the progress of government and telcos' initiatives in a bid to expedite the needed infrastructure to boost connectivity.
Sen. Risa Hontiveros questioned DepEd's proposal to have teachers enter into loans with GSIS for laptops worth P20,000 or less. The payment of these loans will be debited from the teachers' salaries.
Sen. Grace Poe said concerned government units are mandated to process and approve permits and clearances for the construction of infrastructures including cell sites within the maximum period of seven working days.
During the plenary deliberations of the proposed 2020 DICT budget, Sen. Panfilo Lacson, the agency budget sponsor, told Sen. Grace Poe that not one cell site has been completed by D
Sen. Grace Poe said her committee will come up with its position to settle the issue on the status of Mislatel's franchise that Congress had granted in 1998.
Under the draft memorandum circular crafted by presidential adviser on ICT Ramon Jacinto, a maximum of two independent tower companies may be registered by the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) in the first four years of the implementation of the policy.
