Philippines starts first phase of national fibre plan

26 April 2024

The Philippine government has launched the first phase of its National Fibre Backbone (NFB) project, which it says will boost the country’s economy as well as its digital ambitions.

The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) reports that NFB Phase 1 comprises a 1,245km cable network from Laoag, Ilocos Norte to Roces, Quezon City.

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Moratelindo opts for Remote Peering to connect customers

25 April 2024

Epsilon Telecommunications has been chosen by Moratelindo to connect customers to a global ecosystem of Internet Exchanges (IXs) via Remote Peering.

This partnership enables Moratelindo’s enterprise customers, carriers, and service providers to extend their network reach and improve content and application performance in the US, Europe, Hong Kong, Japan, and rest of the world, without the need for additional infrastructure investment and physical presence in-country.

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Moving forward with mission critical services certification

25 April 2024

Ensuring that mission critical services over broadband networks are actually mission critical is a complex process.

First responders and other users of critical communications services need to have full trust in their voice, video, and data applications in what could be life-threatening situations. 

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Smart Communications blocks more than 13 million SMShing messages

24 April 2024

In the first quarter of this year, Smart Communications blocked more than 13 million SMShing messages designed to help criminals take over people’s social media accounts.

Like with email phishing, SMShing tries to get the victim to click a malicious link. 

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