At least 20 million Filipinos are “internet poor” or should not have the monetary capability to avail of a minimum of 1 gigabyte (GB) of web knowledge per 30 days, a research has proven.
According to the World Data Lab on the Internet Poverty Index, the Philippines ranked sixteenth of 166 nations with the best variety of web poor residents. The nation additionally ranked fiftieth among the many ranked nations when it comes to share.
The research likewise confirmed web customers within the nation pay a minimum of P650 per 30 days for web connectivity — decrease than the P1,400 fee within the US.
GMA Integrated News sought the remark of the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) but it surely has but to reply.
In 2018, the DICT contracted a number of web service suppliers to present free web connection to 11,000 websites within the nation. However, there at the moment are just a few websites left after the contracts expired.
“Before we came in, it went down to 4,000. Tapos ‘yung iba kasi, nagco-continue out of the goodness of their heart kasi walang contract eh. Actually, ‘yun ‘yung mga nililinis namin,” DICT Undersecretary Angelo Nuestro mentioned.
(Before we got here in, it went all the way down to 4,000. Others continued out of the goodness of their coronary heart and we’re really finalizing this.)—Sundy Locus/LDF, GMA Integrated News
Source: www.gmanetwork.com
