The History of of Philippines in the




The Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. that’s owned by America was incorporated and given franchise to operate in the Philippines. This made the rollout process faster in small phone companies.
The Philnet project (now Philippine The Philnet project (now Philippine Network Foundation or PHNET) was born Network Foundation or PHNET) was born as the first Philippine-wide area as the first Philippine-wide area computer network with the support of computer network with the support of the Department of Science and the Department of Science and Technology and the Industrial Research Technology and the Industrial Research Foundation. Foundation.
In 1994, Benjie Tan established the Philippines’ first internet connection at a PLDT network center in Makati City.
The amount of mobile cellular subscriptions increased significantly. In 2013, the number reached to 102 million thousand subscribers.
as the fastest growing internet years with a growth of 531%.