HOW ICT STARTS IN THE PHILIPPINES? Before 1928 , telecommunications in the Philippines was segmented. Limiting you to call people only within your vicinity. Later in 1928 , American-owned PLDT was incorporated and given the franchise to establish and operate telephone services in the Philippines. Within the provinces, small telephone companies were established to speed up the development. In 1968 , PLDT became a Filipino-controlled corporation bought by Ramon Cojuangco, who died of stomach cancer on May 6, 1984. Following in 1987 , PLDT establishes the country’s first cellular telephone network and in 1993 , with the aid of the Department of Science and Technology and the Industrial Research Foundation, the Philnet Project (now known as PHNET) was established. PHNET can maintain and operate the primary DNS service for any organization. In 1994 , Benjie Tan, who was working for ComNet, established the Philippines ’ first connection to the internet at...