The results of the audit will become the basis for NTC to come up with new guidelines on acceptable speed and cost that telcos are duty-bound to follow, according to the lawmaker.
Tech titan IBM announced on Friday, Dec.18, a groundbreaking pact with local semiconductor firm Ionics EMS on two strategic agreements involving the pioneering deployment of iOS ?Expert Factory App? and as a vendor-partner for cloud computing and Internet of Things (IoT) services.
Like a rampaging bull that suddenly broke out of the pen, the phenomenal ?AlDub? tandem tore every record book along its way and sprinted to the top as this year?s most searched term in the local site of Google.
Analysis performed by telecoms equipment maker Ericsson based on Ookla speedtest data showed that the peak mobile Internet speed in the Philippines is 13Mbps while the average speed is 2Mbps. This is at par with the speed with rest of the region except for Singapore and Australia which have substantially faster speeds.
The United Nations and the US Federal Bureau of Investigation said that at least 750,000 pedophiles are online at any given time. As such, tens of thousands of Filipino children fall prey to the perils of online pornography.
The national government, through the Philippine Government Electronic Procurement System (PhilGEPS), said it saved at least P1.05 billion in newspaper advertisement expenses last year.