Dito Telecommunity has started its technical audits on Thursday and they’re confident about their preparedness for it. DITO is working its way to secure its place as the third telco provider in the country, challenging the duopoly of both Globe and PLDT. The company notified the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) in a letter that they […]
Despite the pandemic, PLDT isn’t slowing down on expanding its coverage and improving its customer’s average internet speeds. With a PHP 73 billion investment to achieve this goal in 2021, the chief revenue officer of PLDT, Alfredo Panlilio said in a press statement that the company and its wireless subsidiary Smart will continue to roll […]
UPDATE 4:25PM: ABS-CBN News’ YouTube channel is back online. According to a report by PhilStar, ABS-CBN News’ YouTube channel was hacked due to the lack of 2-factor authentication. As a response, YouTube is reminding everyone to activate 2-factor authentication to all of their online accounts to prevent similar incidents from happening. Don’t forget to check out […]
It’s pretty much a meme now on how bad Philippine internet speeds are relative to what you’re paying for. Things are getting better, but we’re still pretty behind when you look at our peers in SEA, nevermind the rest of the world. While most people will naturally blame the duopoly of PLDT and Globe, there’s […]
As ABS-CBN currently faces uncertainty after its franchise was denied by the House of Representatives, House Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano proposes that ABS-CBN artists should create their own content companies, similar to what Vice Ganda recently did by opening his own network. “Stars can come together, invest, and can have their own content company,” Cayetano […]
The provisional franchise will be until October 2020 Several days after NTC issued a cease and desist order against ABS-CBN, the House of Representatives approved a bill granting ABS-CBN a provisional franchise until October 2020. Cayetano explained that congress is focusing on the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, and that the approved bill will give them more […]
All to save bandwidth With the enhanced community quarantine getting extended, it’s becoming more important than ever before to reduce the strain on mobile networks as everyone works and studies from home. Facebook is the latest company to heed the calls of the Department of Information and Communications Technology to save bandwidth and will be […]
Reduced streaming quality and better compression Following Netflix’s lead, Google, iFlix and iWant has heeded the National Telecommunication Commission’s (NTC) call to manage the bitrate used by its streaming services to ease the burden on Philippine networks as a record number of people work from home. Google is applying the same data-saving steps in the […]
This is what you do when your phone is stolen So, the worst-case scenario has happened: you’ve accidentally lost your mobile phone or worse, it got stolen. You’ve searched high and low for it, and you just can’t get it back. If your phone is stolen and lost and you’re sure that you can’t ever […]
A fourth challenger appears Aside from Dito Telecommunity Corporation (formerly known as Mislatel), there’s another telco in town that has the potential of challenging the duopoly of Smart and Globe. The National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) extended the license to offer mobile network services of NOW Telecom Company, Inc., which means the company can now offer […]
It is more affordable than the first ROG Phone While it has launched globally a few days back, it is only recently that ASUS revealed the official pricing of the ROG Phone 2 in China. The good news is that there’s an affordable Tencent version that comes with 8GB RAM and 128GB internal storage that […]
Mislatel will be known as Dito Telecommunity It is a green light for Mislatel: President Rodrigo Duterte officially awarded a certificate of public convenience and necessity (CPCN) to Mislatel, which is now known as Dito Telecommunity. The awarding happened at Malacañan Palace on July 8, together with officials of the Department of Information and Communications […]