President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. announced that the Philippines will be connected to the first subsea cable system from the United States that would improve Wi-Fi connection in the country. (Photo courtesy of Malacañang) Marcos bared that the country will benefit from the project that...
The Valenzuela City government on Wednesday, Feb. 22, started clearing city roads of tangled cable wires or "spaghetti" wires for the safety of residents and motorists. The "Oplan Linis Ganda Cable" aims to ensure road safety, provide residents with more spaces, and ease traffic congestion on...
The $150-million Philippine Domestic Submarine Cable Network (PDSCN), the longest of its kind in the country, is on track to be completed April this year, Globe announced Friday, January 19. Globe partnered with Eastern Communications and InfiniVAN Inc. for the project meant to connect previously...
KAMPO HENERAL PACIANO RIZAL, Santa Cruz, Laguna – Police arrested four cable installers for allegedly stealing cable wires on Sunday night, Dec. 11, in Calamba City, this province. Col. Randy Glenn Silvio, Laguna police chief, identified the suspects as alias “Hobert, ”Dennies,”...
Two men who stole a total of P590,460 worth of cable wires in Taytay, Rizal were arrested by the police in Quezon City early Saturday morning, Dec. 3. The Quezon City Police District (QCPD) identified the suspects as Rosendo Fallorina, 54, and Christian Moreno, 25, both residents of Brgy....
PLDT Inc. completed the landing of the shore-end segment of the $75 Million (about P4.4 Billion) Asia Direct Cable system (ADC) at its station in Nasugbu, Batangas, the telco announced Friday, November 25. ADC is a global consortium comprised of leading communications and technology companies,...
Renowned urban planner Felino Palafox Jr. said that establishing an aerial cable car system will help alleviate the traffic situation in Metro Manila and other urban centers in the Philippines, as well as boost security and benefit the environment. Palafox said establishing such a system, which he...
Despite viral internet memes poking fun at his suggestion to use an aerial cable car system to solve the traffic woes in Metro Manila, Senator Robin Padilla on Sunday, Aug. 14, maintained that the plan has sound basis owing to the previous administration’s approval of it. Cable cars in transit...
Cignal Cable Corporation (Cignal Cable) on Wednesday, Aug. 11, entered into a Sale and Purchase Agreement with Sky Vision Corporation (Sky Vision), ABS-CBN Corporation (ABS-CBN), and Lopez, Inc. to acquire 38.88 percent of the total issued and outstanding capital stock of Sky Cable Corporation (Sky...
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY -- The National Telecommunications Commission in Northern Mindanao (NTC-10) is eyeing to include the power lines in the underground cable development here as part of resolving the ‘spaghetti wires’ or overlapping wires and cables along the major streets in this city. The...
Globe Telecom Inc., Eastern Communications, along with telecom and digital solutions provider InfiniVAN, recently started deploying fiber cables to build the country’s longest submarine fiber cable network spanning 2,500 kilometers, about the same distance between Manila and Singapore, for a yet...
Local telcos suffered at least a thousand incidents of cable theft and sabotage of their network equipment in the first semester of 2022 alone. They urged customers to stay vigilant against such illegal activities disrupting their internet connection, Thursday, July 21. Recently, a group of men...
