Carry out GMA broadband project, Palace urges new admin By Aytch S. de la Cruz 06/03/2010

Carry out GMA broadband project, Palace urges new admin

By Aytch S. de la Cruz 06/03/2010 Citing the need for the country to be connected electronically, Malacañang yesterday said the next administration should reconsider and revisit the national broadband network (NBN) program — President Arroyo’s pet project that was cancelled due to the alleged anomalies surrounding its contract to potential supplier, China’s Zhongxing Telecommunication Equipment Co. (ZTE). Executive Secretary Leandro Mendoza who was linked to the controversy given his previous position as Transportation and Communications chief, said they are hoping that the next  government would take this aborted project into account to serve its genuine purpose of bridging the networks of various government offices across the nation. “The reconnection especially among government offices is very important. That will connect the country electronically and even integrate. The very purpose of the national broadband network program was to integrate all the systems now existing in government,” Mendoza told reporters in a post-briefing interview. “I just hope that the entire country could be electronically connected (because) the problem is that we may have (network) connection provided by the private sectors but, you know, it’s profit-oriented. When it comes to fourth-, fifth- and sixth-class municipalities, the service is no longer there so we really need to have a government intervention on electronic connection,” he added..... MORE     Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20100603hed3.html

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