Sen. Panfilo Lacson said while Comelec’s servers may not have been hacked, the poll body should remain on guard against possible unauthorized access to its data as the May polls draw closer.
The DICT expects the government to save P720 million in Internet subscription expenses in the first year of implementation of the NBP or up to P34 billion in the next five years.
Sen. Panfilo Lacson has questioned the move of the bicameral conference committee of Congress to give a "useless" increase of less than P1 billion in the 2021 budget of the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT).
Sen. Panfilo Lacson made the statement after DICT Gregorio Honasan II remarked in his agency’s budget hearing in Congress that the country’s Internet speed is “not so bad” at 3 to 7Mbps.
