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By Melvin G. Calimag

IT rantings from the Philippines

Archives for March 2009

WiMax in the Philippines: What now?

Monday, March 30 2009 06:14 PM

Something amusing, if not intriguing, happened last Wednesday when tech giant Intel held a press conference regarding its WiMax strategy in the country. At that briefing, Intel execs said that while they are pushing very hard for the technology, the decision to roll out a commercial WiMax service is still..... Read more ť

Tags: Philippines, Wi-Fi, 3G, radio, Intel Corp., mobile, WiMAX

A sign of things to come?

Monday, March 23 2009 11:51 AM

Dell Computer, the Texas-based computer maker, announced last Friday it is selling one of the only two company-owned call center sites in the Philippines to call center operator, Teleperformance.

This could mean two things: Dell has been hit hard by the global economic crisis, and the BPO (business process outsourcing)..... Read more ť

Tags: Philippines, Dell Computer Corp., agent, business process, financial, BPO, call-center, Texas, computer company, exec

Interesting battle for dominance

Monday, March 16 2009 11:11 PM

It's surprising to see how Meralco, the biggest electric distributor in the Philippines, has become an unlikely setting of a battle royale between telco giant PLDT and beverage behemoth San Miguel Corporation (SMC).

I was at the PLDT press briefing a couple of weeks ago and personally saw how..... Read more ť

Tags: Philippines, Shareholder, broadband, power company, utility company, alliance, partnership, telecommunications company, beverage, strategy

Shift in Philippine telco space

Tuesday, March 10 2009 08:46 AM

Last week was quite eventful for the Philippine telecom sector when two of the country's biggest telephone operators revealed interesting figures and top-level personnel movements.

Globe Telecom, owned by the Ayala family and Singapore's SingTel group, was the first to make the news when it revealed it was replacing its long-time..... Read more ť

Tags: Internet Service Provider, Internet, Internet Company, telecommunications, SingTel, service provider, BPO, phone, telecommunications company, Wireless

ISPs a vanishing breed

Sunday, March 01 2009 02:10 PM

I'm not sure if the situation is similar in other countries, but the technology companies we've come to know as ISPs (Internet service providers) are in danger of becoming obsolete in the Philippines.

William Bill Torres, the "Father of the Philippine Internet" and co-founder of Mozcom, and the country's first ISP,..... Read more ť

Tags: Internet Service Provider, Philippines, Internet, service provider, conference, Internet service, telecommunications company, industry, Information and Communication Technology, co-founder

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Melvin G. Calimag

Melvin G. Calimag currently writes for the infotech section of a popular English broadsheet in the Philippines. Prior to this, Melvin served as an assistant editor at Metropolitan Computer Times (MCT), the first IT publication in the Philippines. He is currently the vice president for internals at the IT Journalists Association of the Philippines (CyberPress), and also serves as a charter member with the Philippine Science Journalists Association.