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http://www.examiner.com/images/blog/wysiwyg/image/algore%287%29.JPG. Internet in the Philippines. COMM 150. image courtesy of Dr. Wendell Capili.
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Internet in the Philippines • COMM 150
“Of all the countries in Asia, the Philippines has the greatest potential to exploit the Internet. It is the third-largest English-speaking country in the world; it has fastest Internet access in Asia using asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) technology and an E1 link to allow transmission speeds of 2.4 megabits per second against Japan's 1.5 megabits per second using a T1 link (Newsbytes 1995a, 1995c).” Peng Hwa Ang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Chee Meng Loh, National Computer Board, Singapore, 1995
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Republic Act 7925 • 11 regions • 300,000 • 400,000 • 1:10 Telecommunications Act of the Philippines, 1995
Where would we be today, if the monopoly hadn’t been broken?
Sources: http://www.kaimo.com/monopoly2.htm http://www1.american.edu/carmel/bree/priv.html http://www.terminate.com/fidonet/fidopic.gif http://www.jeremymorgan.com/blog/tech/a-geeks-trip-down-memory-lane/ http://www.isoc.org/inet96/proceedings/h1/h1_1.htm