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March 29, 1994, 1:15 a.m.: Benjie Tan, who was working for ComNet, a company that supplied Cisco routers to the Philnet project, established the Philippines’ first connection to the Internet at a PLDT network center in Makati City. Shortly thereafter, he posted a short message to the Usenet newsgroup soc.culture.filipino to alert Filipinos ...
On March 29, 1994, Internet first became available and has since become commercially available for consumer, private business, government and institutional use. Business process outsourcing in the Philippines (BPO) started in 1997. Significant number of BPO companies depend on internet connectivity to perform its function.
In the Philippines about 47 to 50% of the population can and has access to the Internet. [5] Initially the Philippines only had BBS (Bulletin board system) access, however after March 29, 1994, the Philippine Network Foundation (PHNet) connected the country to the web via Sprint. As of 2010, 29.3 million Filipinos were using the internet.
Despite most Filipinos wanting to be connected, the Akamai Q3 2016 report states that the Philippines ironically has the second slowest fixed line broadband Internet speed in the world. [ 22 ] Based on this Q2 2017 report by Akamai, the Philippines' average internet speed (IPV4) was a lowly 5.5 Mbps, which was below the global average of 7.2 ...
The Magna Carta for Philippine Internet Freedom (abbreviated as MCPIF, or #MCPIF for online usage) is an internet law bill filed in the Congress of the Philippines.The bill contains provisions promoting civil and political rights and Constitutional guarantees for Philippine internet users, such as freedom of expression, as well as provisions on information and communications technology (ICT ...
Philippine Internet eXchange (PhIX) is the first Internet Exchange Point in the Philippines. [ 1 ] It is a joint project of Philippine Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to interconnect through a common backbone or Internet Exchange Point (IX) for efficient infrastructure.
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The word Internet was used in 1945 by the United States War Department in a radio operator's manual, [14] and in 1974 as the shorthand form of Internetwork. [15] Today, the term Internet most commonly refers to the global system of interconnected computer networks, though it may also refer to any group of smaller networks. [16]