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8 Responses to “Guesting on The Explainer @ ANC about the NBN Project”

1. Mike Abundo replied on Sep 29th, 2007 at 12:54 pm (1)

   Politics aside, the NBN is just stupid. The Philippine government is not YouTube; its bandwidth requirements simply do not justify building its own Internet backbone.

2. yuga replied on Sep 29th, 2007 at 4:33 pm (2)

   I heard from someone Singapore and Australia are planning their own network simila to the NBN. I’m interested to see their plans for comparison.

3. elmer replied on Sep 29th, 2007 at 10:08 pm (3)

   My take on Singapore and Australia case is..

   Singapore – this small country (city state) but rich can easily afford of have as may backbone as they wanted to.. heck since their land area is so small they could probably set it up in a day (exaggerated BTW lol).

   Australia – Big land area, highly industrialized, top secret military capabilities, sensitive government data, terrorist target.. with this, the government could easily justify the need to have their own backbone.

4. jangelo replied on Sep 30th, 2007 at 1:52 am (4)

   What about from a policy/governance perspective? I did work for the NEDA and ICC before venturing into blogging and all things online.

   Then again, I wouldn’t want to get into hot water for any info I might contribute.

5. BrianB replied on Sep 30th, 2007 at 10:56 am (5)

   Mike,

   A WiMAX network here could definitely look good in our calling card.

6. BrianB replied on Sep 30th, 2007 at 11:04 am (6)

   Abe,

   Maybe it should be pointed out, in WiMAX you can actually choose to have a longer range or a higher bandwidth. In our case, since we are an archipelago, we could have one antenna with long range to serve southern islands and other remote places and a high bandwidth one here in Manila. It’s a 50km radius if we should reach, so an antenna in Guimaras can serve both Iloilo City and Bacolod City.

   It’ll be good for business over all if we are WiMAX enabled well ahead of India, where I believe private corporations are leading the way.

   Good Luck on the guesting, though.

7. Kevin Yapjoco replied on Oct 2nd, 2007 at 8:43 pm (7)

   Let me just give my two cents. First off, I believe that the NBN Project is NOT stupid.

   We are an archipelago. So I’ll illustrate through an example how the NBN can solve this problem of distance. For those living in Manila and have not come from the provinces, it is really hard to renew your driver’s license in Manila given that you applied for one in your hometown. Let’s say a year ago you lived in Zamboanga, and got a driver’s license there. You moved to Manila and had to renew. Problem is, all your information is still back in Zamboanga. If the government had a NBN for all the LGUs and agencies, then they could just send the data from Zamboanga to Manila. Would you really want to go through the courts and re-do everything when all you wanted was to renew your license?

   I just want to get this straight to everyone. We are living in the 21st century where information has to move. The trend a few years back was IT.. just Information Technology. It was all about storing the data and managing it. Now the trend is ICT or Information and Communication Technology precisely because data has to be used everywhere and anywhere at the right place and time.

   Heck, even Korea has a super high-speed broadband network that’s for public use and not government use. Look at where they are now. They are one of gaming capitals of the world. Their research and development is booming. Their industry can compete with other first-world countries. This is because broadband allows information to travel fast so collaboration and information-sharing is also increased. I wish most people would see the light. Most don’t.

8. Jarod_0122 replied on Oct 8th, 2007 at 10:58 pm (8)

   Live within your means.I wish people could see the truth in this. Fact is we cant pay our foreign debts.

   http://www.pinoysites.org/jcm/item/23/

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