POOR INTERNET CONNECTIVITY IN THE PHILIPPINES
A REVIEW OF EXISTING LITERATURE
A technical paper that embarks upon the actual objectives of the State for the benefit of stakeholders and users of Internet Services in the Philippines will shed light on the existing and future aspects of the service.
Such a paper shall make apparent all the reasons and basis for explaining the current state of Internet in the Philippines.
As the situation stands, Internet service in the country today is miserably slow and yet it counts as being among the most expensive all over the world. Why did such a situation come into being? How were investments and revenues of the licensed providers used to allow this to happen? What factors helped cause the snail paced speed of Internet in spite of exorbitant earnings amassed by providers from helpless subscribers? In the face of such wretched conditions is the Philippine Government simply going to stay immobile…
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Slow Internet in the Philippines
Little do the current crop of Philippine stakeholders know that any scarce resource in the telecommunications industry, to inlcude every single one of the specific bandwidths of the various Spectrum of our Radio Frequencies, are only allocated by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU).
Some quarters believe that owning the entire breadth of one whole Spectrum, whether one is able or unable to pay the Spectrum Usage Fee (SUF) to the government, is legal and just okay.
It is not legal and it is not okay. It is immoral and an abomination. The International Telecommunications Union (ITU), the Asian Pacific Telecommunity (APT) will not stand for this. This has got to change.
The ITU recently held its 2015 Conference in Geneva, Switzerland and declared as follows:
“WRC‐15 will provide more bandwidth for mobile– broadband
“Governments worldwide are making available more– spectrum – in line with national broadband planning and desired long…
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The Mapping Center Project
Building the Philippines-Asia Pacific GIS Center in Taguig
The first GIS based Center in the Philippines for Asia Pacific will be built in Taguig City in cooperation with the public sector. The letter of intent was submitted to the owner of the property in Taguig on February 26, 2013 while a technical working group conference was held in Quezon City.
This Center will be a facility for undertaking database development to evolve a GIS for environmental data, soil, water and flood or tsunami as well as liquefaction, forest, earthquake, among many other purposes.
Its main function is to establish ecological parameters for building new structures, sustaining or maintaining habitats, possible relocation of old structures or communities and most of all, readiness for potential calamities in this part of the world or disasters that will possibly affect the entire planet.
Design and construction will be undertaken by a competent local civil works undertaker and technology will be sourced from the United States, Europe (France, Germany, Ukraine, Russia and other countries like Canada, Australia, Korea, Japan as well as China.
Advent of new mapping techniques for Asian markets
A new generation of new GeoSQL based and GIS-Oracle-AutoCAD reliant mapping technologies integrated with novel inputs and utilizing the highest form of hardware, open source softwares, is soon the come to Asian markets.
In the Philippines, using the earlier forms of this technology are the Department of Environment and Natural Resources – DENR, the Department of Justice – DOJ, among other agencies.
Private companies have also contracted to have their own scaled down versions of the same systems from the same suppliers of the DENR and DOJ.
The plus for this is the recent automation of the Commission on Elections – Comelec that will make the commission gravitate towards the purchase and use of the said system.
Survey groups will also become attracted to the technology or the companies that are service providers of the same.
In other Asian cities and countries, China, Japan, HongKong, Singapore, among others, the technology is already widely in use. More modern versions of the mapping technology are also used in these parts.
This means that it is not far into the future when the problems of digitized maps, location finders, etc. will become more perfect than they are now. The benefits for photogrammetry, geodetics, geology, engineering, design, construction, architectural planning, urban development, among many other fields is tremendous. Even disaster and emergency assistance, public order and safety, defense, search and rescue will gain enormously from these developments.
There should be more support for this area of concern not only from public sector, but also from the private, business sector. After all, the more accurate the stored information in data based, the better for enterprise.
Part I and II of study on Why Internet is slow in the Philippines
We have finally completed the technical paper on Why Internet is slow in the Philippines. These are the screenshots and images of the doc we finished just about a week or so ago.
Source: Part I and II of study on Why Internet is slow in the Philippines
The International Center for Strategic Communications Studies
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Source: The International Center for Strategic Communications Studies
POOR INTERNET CONNECTIVITY IN THE PHILIPPINES
The International Center for Strategic Communications Studies
ICSCOMS
The International Center for Strategic Communications Studies – ICSCOMS is a colloquium of experts in a variety of fields that deal with strategic and other concerns in the different areas of Communications.
Communications is a pervasive aspect of human endeavor. It is a global necessity and holds an important niche in the lives of people, families, groups of individuals, corporate organizations and entire nations.
Objectives
To conduct studies, research and development in the area of communications.
Establish a communications research laboratory that will invite and accommodate as many experts and specialists in various fields to undertake tests, trials, experiments, design and development, in communications.
Deliver results of studies, research and designs and proto-types in selected instances to specific recipients as well as in most part, to the people all around the planet.
To contribute to the goal of bringing communications for peoples all over the world.
The Organization
ICSCOMS…
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Understanding Faurat – Lessons from Sulu ICRC Hostage Crisis
3rd of a series
Postcript to Understanding Faurat: When will Counter-Terrorist elements learn?
In the 1st part of this series, we noted that terrorists wage a world war under the guise of Islam. That the war they are waging is more secular, ideological than religious.
In the 2nd part of the this series, we tried to expound in greater length how progressive movements in some parts of the world in the past and today are similar in many ways to that of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria as well as to many other Islamic movements that we labeled as the “Jamaat” groups espousing not jihad or holy war but faurat which stands for revolution and is not a concept propounded by the Holy Qur’an.
We attempted to establish that the problem in many cases is that most of us at the receiving end of terrorist assaults are just patently and totally helpless…
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From Airport Hyper Terminal to Aerotropolis Airport
Around 2004, Jakarta completed its Plan for the upgrade of Soekarno Hatta International Airport Hyper Terminal – the full construction of which took until 2009 to finish. The resulting architecture design consisted of the air transport terminal facilities and alongside these was a built in full dress commercial mall – business district with a profusion of greens inside the complex itself – refreshing gardens within the airport that became the inspiration for so many designs today. Most of the ideas that will live on forever with the structures in Soekarno Hatta International Airport Hyper Terminal are borne of the exemplary competence and ingenuity of Paul Andreu.
Some features of Soekarno Hatta International Airport seen from photos published on the web are shown below:
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Hyperterminal airport design for Eastern Visayas
Why the Philippines needs an Expanded Airport Services Terminal for Eastern Visayas
by Greengold CyberparkHoldings Corporation
Background
Aviation, aeronautics is a United States Dollars Three Trillion (US$3,000,000,000,000) per annum industry[1], to which the Philippine aviation sector contributes only less than a fraction of one percent (1%) – and equivalent to 0.051% only the country – Republic of the Philippines’ Gross Domestic Product.
The entire Asian Region commands a thirty two percent (32%) share of these US$5 Trillion revenues. The question is whether, the Philippines, from hereon until 2030, can dramatically change its standing in the ratings of travel destinations and number of transiting passengers, as well as in revenues per mile of air traffic.
Obviously, something needs to be done and there is a real need to seriously attend to the concerns and problems inherent to as well as presently besetting air transport in the country.
The expertise and the infrastructure are already there and the needed links that can be brought into the equation are waiting to be made, cemented and made profit of. These just need to be started and made wholly productive and profitable to the Philippines.
Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) was privatized due in part to the master development plan to develop a privatized Air Traffic Services system in the Philippines and that included throwing the entire weight of the old Air Transportation Office (ATO) – representing the regulatory authority in civil aviation in the country – into the picture.
For that reason alone, CAAP became a privatized entity. However the objectives and goals forecast in such an event still need to be realized:
The entire Asian Region commands a thirty two percent (32%) share of these US$5 Trillion revenues. The question is whether, the Philippines, from hereon until 2030, can dramatically change its standing in the ratings of travel destinations and number of transiting passengers, as well as in revenues per mile of air traffic.
Obviously, something needs to be done and there is a real need to seriously attend to the concerns and problems inherent to as well as presently besetting air transport in the country.
The expertise and the infrastructure are already there and the needed links that can be brought into the equation are waiting to be made, cemented and made profit of. These just need to be started and made wholly productive and profitable to the Philippines.
Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) was privatized due in part to the master development plan to develop a privatized Air Traffic Services system in the Philippines and that included throwing the entire weight of the old Air Transportation Office (ATO) – representing the regulatory authority in civil aviation in the country – into the picture.
For that reason alone, CAAP became a privatized entity. However the objectives and goals forecast in such an event still need to be realized:
- Full Modernization of Civil Aviation monitoring systems equipment
- Place Philippine Civil Aviation systems at least at par with those of China, Malaysia that in 1990s have only recently begun their own modernization
- Extensively increase muscle through revenue generated from modernized system
- Increase safety in Philippine Civil Aviation
- Engage in campaigns in cooperation with other state civil aviation authorities for air transport safety, increased travel demand to the Philippines through forming of alliances between Philippine air sector and foreign aviation groups – among many others[2]
Pros and Cons of Eastern Visayas Airport Expansion
After November 2013 many sectors strongly revived the argument that the country needed to seriously consider expanding its airport capacity in the south east that was directly hit by a devastating catastrophe and may be subjected once more to similar tragedy in the future.
After November 2013 many sectors strongly revived the argument that the country needed to seriously consider expanding its airport capacity in the south east that was directly hit by a devastating catastrophe and may be subjected once more to similar tragedy in the future.
Figure 1. Map of Existing Eastern Visayas Airport Terminals
Cyberpark Telecommunications 