Connectivity, Resiliency for the Country's Productivity
- 2 years ago
The telecommunications industry proved to be one of the most essential industries as it enabled personal and professional communication and was a key tool used by businesses. Despite the global health crisis brought about by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the industry showed resilience in recent years, as reflected by the sector’s increasing gross value added contribution to the Philippine economy.
With a focus on the mobile market, the government is pushing for improvements in the industry’s performance including plans to create a Common Tower Policy that will delist the telecom sector as a public utility. A 5G network was introduced at the beginning of 2020 and mobile network operators have started offering this technology to their customers.
Optical fibers when bundled into a fiber-optic cable are capable of transmitting more data over longer distances and faster than other mediums. It is this new technology that provides homes and businesses with fiber-optic internet, phone and TV services.
Fast access to the Internet makes it possible for professionals to telecommute (work remotely), makes distance learning possible (including homeschooling), allows access to health care (telemedicine), and makes independent living for the aging or disabled workable.
In 2014, the number of registered internet service providers in the Philippines was about 728 providers. The number of ISPs that provides internet access across all the regions in the country has significantly increased over the last ten years states a report published by Statista Research Department in Feb 1, 2022.
In The Manila Times (TMT) online business forum, titled “Connectivity resiliency for the country’s productivity “, the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) represented by the Office of the Undersecretary for Digital Philippines (OUDP) headed by Usec Maria Victoria Castro gives us the lowdown on where we are at, National Telecommunications Deputy Commissioner Ella Blanca Lopez and InfiniVAN Chief Technology Officer Alberto Espedido shows us where we are headed in the next 5 years.
With a focus on the mobile market, the government is pushing for improvements in the industry’s performance including plans to create a Common Tower Policy that will delist the telecom sector as a public utility. A 5G network was introduced at the beginning of 2020 and mobile network operators have started offering this technology to their customers.
Optical fibers when bundled into a fiber-optic cable are capable of transmitting more data over longer distances and faster than other mediums. It is this new technology that provides homes and businesses with fiber-optic internet, phone and TV services.
Fast access to the Internet makes it possible for professionals to telecommute (work remotely), makes distance learning possible (including homeschooling), allows access to health care (telemedicine), and makes independent living for the aging or disabled workable.
In 2014, the number of registered internet service providers in the Philippines was about 728 providers. The number of ISPs that provides internet access across all the regions in the country has significantly increased over the last ten years states a report published by Statista Research Department in Feb 1, 2022.
In The Manila Times (TMT) online business forum, titled “Connectivity resiliency for the country’s productivity “, the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) represented by the Office of the Undersecretary for Digital Philippines (OUDP) headed by Usec Maria Victoria Castro gives us the lowdown on where we are at, National Telecommunications Deputy Commissioner Ella Blanca Lopez and InfiniVAN Chief Technology Officer Alberto Espedido shows us where we are headed in the next 5 years.