I came across this BBC news that Intel is backing Wireless Africa Plan. Wireless Internet and telephony? Yes, I agree this is the most feasible technology for remote areas. Being a pioneer of the Phil-German Rural Telecommunication Network project, I cannot help but worry about the future of the telephone cooperative I started [...]
Archive for February, 2008
Are the days of small telcos numbered?
Posted in CAMTECO, Camiguin, Telecom, cooperative, voip, tagged 3g, Camiguin, CAMTECO, gtz, ip phone, telephone, telephony, voip, wifi, wimax on February 23, 2008 | 3 Comments »
PLDT expands their domestic fiber-optic network capacity
Posted in Telecom, tagged broadband, internet, telco, Telecom, telephone on February 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Manila Bulletin posted that PLDT’s domestic fiber optic network to reach terabit capacity by year-end. Terabit is a measurement of volume of digital information. Each DVD disk contain 4 gigabytes. In my rough calculation, PLDT fiber network can transfer 31 DVDs per second! Why? “To support our economy which has become to be more and [...]
CAMTECO 14th Anniversary
Posted in CAMTECO, Camiguin, Telecom, telephone, tagged ado aguilar, alcatel, antonio gallardo, bagets chan, Camiguin, CAMTECO, DOTC, Germany, gtz, heinz pomplun, josefina lichauco, juergen marx, Philippines, ping de jesus, PLDT, project, telephone on February 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
February 12, 1994, exactly 14 years ago, was the inauguration of Camiguin Telephone Cooperative (Phil-German Rural Telephone Project). It was also the start of commercial operation of the network. Everybody was excited and busy since it was the culmination of years of preparations since 1990.
Just a few months before the inauguration, Alcatel was busy in [...]
My first Virtual Phone Number (VPN) call
Posted in voip, tagged internet, Telecom, virtual phone number, voip, vpn on February 8, 2008 | 17 Comments »
I finally got my first call from my Washington, USA number. VPN is one of the many powerful features of VoIP. It’s called virtual because there’s no actual telephone set connected to that number. Instead, when somebody calls that number, it’s my VoIP phone here in the Philippines that rings. My VoIP setup is stand-alone, [...]
Phil-German Rural Communications Project
Posted in CAMTECO, Camiguin, Telecom, cooperative, tagged alcatel, antonio gallardo, bagets chan, Camiguin, CAMTECO, dagondon, gtz, heinz pomplun, juergen marx, Philippines, president aquino, project, Telecom, telephone on February 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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