The P1.5 billion funding for the national broadband plan under the proposed P5.26 trillion budget for 2023 should increase Philippine internet connection speeds next year, Speaker Martin Romualdez of Leyte said Monday.
Romualdez was referring to the P1.5 billion of the P77 billion allocation which the House of Representatives realigned alongside other increases in the budget for education, health, transportation, and other critical social services.
House appropriations panel chairman Zaldy Co of Ako Bicol agreed, noting that the P1.5 billion funding for the national broadband project will also provide connections to far-flung places in the country. He was referring to the earlier agreement forged by DICT, Facebook, and the Bases Conversion and Development Authority in which Facebook agreed to provide the Philippine government with spectrum equivalent to at least two million megabits per second once the internet infrastructure has been established.
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