The Philippines must raise to a hyperdrive level the building of telecommunications infrastructures to address the country’s digital divide, according to a consumer rights advocate group. Know more:
The Philippines must raise to a hyperdrive level the building of telecommunications infrastructures to address the country’s digital divide, according to a consumer rights advocate group.
However, Oxales lamented the government’s slow pace in developing the telecom infrastructure, which is falling behind other countries. “But the governments of other countries invest in their digital infrastructure heavily and strategically on a national scale, with a vision of becoming a globally competitive digital economy. Right now, we are not able to compete with that.”
President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr., at the recent Telco Summit, said the country’s current 70-percent connectivity rate is “not good enough,” and that “the government and its partners could do so much better.” “Our ability to quickly shift to online transactions during the height of the pandemic gave all of us experiential proof of the great value and utility of digital technologies,” he added.
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