EDITORS DESK Art Samaniego While Facebook deleted pages that violated its community standards, the social media giant at the same time has allowed ads that lure people into giving their login credentials. Facebook recently deactivated hundreds of pages in the Philippines to weed out the so-called...
NOW Telecom Company, Inc. (NOW Tel) has secured Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approval for its corporate restructuring to increase its authorized capital stock and quasi-reorganizate its equity to wipe out its deficit, the company announced Tuesday, April 26. As a result of the approved...
Alliance Towers Corporation Chairman and CEO Sherwin Hing and President and COO Alvin Tolentino. Independent tower company Alliance Towers Corporation (ATC) is going full speed ahead in building towers to support digital transformation and telecommunications industry efforts to address the demand...
NTC The National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) has directed all public telecommunications entities near Taal Volcano and its surrounding areas to ensure minimal service interruption for customers affected by its recent volcanic activity. In a memorandum signed by Commissioner Gamaliel A....
PLDT Home over-delivered on its targets for 2021 despite COVID-19 lockdowns and natural disasters, posting record-breaking performance that helped drive the growth of PLDT Inc., the Philippines’ largest telecommunications company. The aggressive expansion allowed PLDT Home to pass more than half...
Belton Technology Group Epsilon Telecommunications (Epsilon), a global connectivity provider, has been selected by Belton Technology Group, a full turnkey contract manufacturer headquartered in Hong Kong, to completely re-architect its wide-area network (WAN). Epsilon is replacing Belton...
Senatorial candidate Herbert “Bistek” Bautista on Thursday called on telecommunication companies in the Philippines to ensure unimpeded communication between the estimated 300 Filipinos in Ukraine and their families here as tension between Russia and Ukraine rages. Bautista appealed to the...
Vice presidential candidate Senate President Vicente C. Sotto III on Monday, Feb.14 pressed the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) to look into the persistent use of text messaging as a black propaganda tool to spread lies and fake news to smear the integrity of personalities or groups....
Presidential aspirant Vice President Leni Robredo wants to incentivize the business process outsourcing (BPO) industry and telecommunication companies in a bid to decentralize the industry and offer more work-from-home arrangements to Filipinos. Vice President Leni Robredo (Mark Balmores/MANILA...
Malacañang said that the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) was only seeking guidance from the Office of the Executive Secretary (OES) about assigning available and unused frequencies and the OES had no direct hand in giving ABS-CBN's frequencies to the Advanced Media Broadcasting...
National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) For the sixth straight year, the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) has exceeded its annual collection target by a whopping 72.4 percent. As of December 2021, NTC collection was at P9.09B, a whopping P3.82B jump from 2020. “I am grateful to...
An advocacy group has urged power and telecommunications sectors to work together seamlessly following the widespread service disruptions in the aftermath of Typhoon "Odette," particularly in the Visayas and Mindanao regions. Surigao City after typhoon "Odette" (Photo courtesy of Jilson...
