Connectivity vitalIn the meantime, customer firms reliant on the internet say they're more worried about lost business than getting value for money in the telecoms service. But he said snail-paced internet service was down to excessive administrative hurdles slowing plans to expand data capacity, rather than the effective existence of a duopoly. It's not from the heat, grime or traffic of the capital's clogged streets - it's the Philippines' ramshackle internet service that is making his life a misery. A vendor uses a mobile phone to surf internet at a clothes shop in Paranaque, Metro Manila, Philippines July 7, 2016. "Improve the service or I will open the Philippines for competition," Duterte warned PLDT and Globe in May.

Source: Thanhnien News July 17, 2016 23:15 UTC