The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT)-Cybersecurity Bureau recently announced that it will be conducting the fourth leg of its annual National Cyber Drill Exercise on Nov. 24 to 25. (Photo from DICT's Facebook page) This year's event is anchored on the theme:...
pldt-logo-ver2 In the first nine months of the year, PLDT Inc.’s Consolidated Service Revenues (net of interconnection costs) rose 7 percent to ₱135.9 billion, driven by record-high service revenues of ₱46 billion in the third quarter. However, reported that its net income declined by 4...
Smart_500x500 Smart Communications Inc. (Smart) registered a three-fold increase in its 5G data traffic in the second and third quarter 2021 as average monthly data traffic grew by nearly 20 times. This developed as YouGov, a London-based international research data and analytics group, reported...
Smart Baicon Infest 2021 Leading mobile services provider Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) continues its commitment in nurturing and championing Filipinos’ creativity and passion for content creation by powering BaiCon InFest 2021, the biggest gathering of content creators and influencers from...
Members of the House Committee on Information and Communications Technology have been advised to monitor the recent action of the Federal Communications Commission against the operations of China Telecom in the United States. Telecommunications tower2 Copies of written information on the issue were...
PLDT_88kLinks PLDT Inc. has blocked at least 88,000 sites and links with online sexual abuse and exploitation of children (OSAEC), nearly three times more in four months, as part of its commitment to protect children online. OSAEC incidents continue to rise as the country continues to battle with...
Communications Secretary Martin Andanar lauded how government media has "come a long way" in communicating with the public, saying its operations have definitely improved under the Duterte administration. Communications Secretary Martin Andanar and other key officials of the Presidential...
The Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) this week regularized 15 personnel who have been working as casual and contractual workers in the PCOO for over 10 years. Communications Secretary Martin Andanar administers the oath-taking of permanent and newly regularized employees during...
media Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) and Korea's largest telecommunications company, KT Corp., have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to explore and develop consumer 5G use cases for Filipinos. "In order to build a truly world-class 5G ecosystem with life-changing experiences, we need...
Communications Secretary Martin Andanar said that sustainable communication which advocates for actionable responses to societal issues should be introduced in government media. PCOO Secretary Martin Andanar (Photo from PCOO Facebook page) Andanar, who heads the Presidential Communications...
Today, sustainability is at the forefront of everything. The Philippine national government, for one, has enacted several laws to address environmental issues. There’s the Clean Air Act 1999, Ecological Solid Waste Management Act 2000, Clean Water Act 2004, Biofuels Act 2006, and Renewable Energy...
The winners of this year’s Philippine Startup Challenge (PSC) will each receive P500,000 worth of grants from the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT), the agency said. Philippine Startup Challenge 2021 (Photo from of the DICT's website) The annual startup competition,...
