President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said on Tuesday that the partnership between fiber internet service providers Converge ICT Solutions Inc. and Singapore-based Keppel Telecommunications & Transportation is expected to boost the country’s Wi-Fi connectivity.
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said on Tuesday that the partnership between fiber internet service providers Converge ICT Solutions Inc. and Singapore-based Keppel Telecommunications & Transportation is expected to boost the country’s Wi-Fi connectivity.
In a video message released by the Presidential Communications Office , Marcos said he met with Converge ICT founder and CEO Dennis Anthony Uy and Keppel T&T CEO and executive director Thomas Pang Thieng Hwi. "I just finished a meeting with the Converge group, who have tied up with the Keppel group to put in a submarine fiber optic cable from the west coast of the United States; it will connect to the Philippines and also connect to Singapore and Indonesia, and this will again give us bigger bandwidth," Marcos said.
"This will give us a better communication system when it comes to all the online services that we are using globally," he added."Itong usapan na ito ay naging bunga nung pagpunta ko sa Singapore... pinag-usapan namin ito kaya’t ngayon nabuo na at ilalagay nila, isasama nila ang Pilipinas doon sa kanilang mahabang fiber optic na kable," he said.
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