Regional Profiles - Philippines
| ICT Developments |
ICT Policy |
- Teledensity: mobile 19.36%, fixed-line 4.17%
- Mandatory interconnection and improvement for the provision of local exchange services
- Strong contributor to national gross growth
- Internet users 1.5 million (Jan–June 2001) to 4.2 million (Jan–June
2003)—2% of population
- ‘IT21’, National IT Plan for twenty-first century, launched in 1998
- GISP — Government Information Systems Plan adopted in 2000
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- Commission on ICT
- Information Technology and e-Commerce Council (ITECC, 2000) is policy body—represented by public and private sectors and chaired by President
- National Information Technology Plan (1994)
- Department of ICT (DICT) will be policy-making body after passed by law
- National IT Plan (1998) - IT21
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| WTO Issues |
Regulatory Frameworks |
- Member since 1995
- Telecom industry liberalized
- One of the first countries to enact e-commerce legislation
- International satellite policy
- Partial deregulation of leased lines services
- Deregulation of value-added service industry
- Commitment to ASEAN in ICT
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- Public Telecommunications Policy Law, 1995 (RA 7925)
- Electronic Commerce Act of the Philippines (RA8792)
- Convergence Law pending
- Re-organization of National Telecom Commission (NTC)
- Creation of Department of ICT (DICT)
- IPR Code, 1998
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