Bigger budget for infocomm technology: Inquirer

According to a report as of October this year, the Philippines' broadband internet speed was the 71st out of 181 countries. - AFP

MANILA (Philippine Daily Inquirer/Asia News Network): Broadband internet speed in Metro Manila and three other regions in Luzon will be an impressive 200 megabits per second (mbps) by February 2022.

That was the promise made by the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) when pressed by Sen Grace Poe last week on the status of its National Broadband Plan (NBP), an undertaking that aims to provide "universal, fast, reliable, affordable broadband internet services to Filipinos in a digital economy."