Internet

by Revin Mikhael D. Ochave, BusinessWorld, 11 Nov 2021 THE PHILIPPINES is the fastest-growing internet economy in Southeast Asia fueled by e-commerce and food delivery services, according to a report by Google, Temasek, and Bain & Co.

by Ramon Royandoyan – Philstar.com, 21 Sep 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Internet in the Philippines remains pricey for Filipinos, but bandwidth quality improved this year, a new report released Tuesday found.

by Miguel R. Camus, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 2 Jul 2021 Full internet connectivity, especially in unserved or underserved areas across the Philippines, would be realized no earlier than 2025, according to the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT).

by Richmond Mercurio (The Philippine Star), 23 Jun 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Globe Telecom Inc. has entered into a partnership with the National Housing Authority (NHA) and the Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development to deploy KonekTayo WiFi in over 100 NHA resettlement sites nationwide.

by Manila Times, 17 Jun 2021 THE country’s internet speed has greatly improved and it has moved up in global rankings, according to the Ookla Speedtest Global Index Report.

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by Joviland Rita/LBG, GMA News, 8 Dec 2019 The Department of Education on Sunday urged parents to teach their children to use the internet as a “learning environment” and not as a distraction for their studies.

JUNE 5, 2019 — Young and educated Filipinos continue to dominate internet use in the country, a Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey revealed.

by Richmond Mercurio (The Philippine Star) – Feb 1, 2019 MANILA, Philippines — Filipinos have further upped their game in terms of spending time online as the Philippines dethroned Thailand to become the world’s heaviest users of the internet.

by Miguel R. Camus, Inquirer, Feb 21, 2018 The Philippines saw improvements for both 4G availability and speed although most of its neighbors in the region remained ahead by those measures, the latest crowdsourced survey by OpenSignal showed.

Advances in IoT security, interoperability and its convergence with AI and other emerging technologies will make the new year a pivotal one for IoT. The Internet of Things (IoT) has started to move to the mainstream in enterprises across all industries. With IoT spending set to increase by 15 percent to reach $772.5 billion by…

by AFP Relaxnews, Jan 4, 2018 Mobile web browsing outstripped desktop-based internet use worldwide in 2017, according to the latest data from StatCounter.

by Miguel R. Camus, Inquirer, Sep 14, 2017 Philippine telecom operators have improved mobile internet quality, especially in 4G (LTE) services but results in a new crowdsourced survey showed the country was still “well behind” global averages.

By RIE TAKUMI,GMA News, Aug 16, 2017 The Philippines is among the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries with the slowest broadband and mobile internet connections and is near the bottom of the ranks around the world.