The document traces the history of telecommunications in the Philippines from the segmented local calls before 1928 to the establishment of PLDT as the dominant telecom provider and its nationalization and privatization. It then discusses the key developments including the first cellular network in 1987, establishment of the Philippine Internet in 1993 with the first internet connection in 1994. It concludes with statistics on internet users reaching 38 million by 2014 and top online activities of Filipinos.

2. Before ICT in the Philippines: Before 1928
Telecommunications in the Philippines was
segmented. You could only call people within
your own small city.

3. 1928: Telecoms in the Philippines
American-owned PLDT was incorporated and
given franchise to establish and operate
telephone services in the Philippines. Small
phone companies in the provinces were
acquired to speed up the rollout process

4. 1930: Philipines was first linked to the outside
world via radiotelephone services to the United
States and other parts of the world.

5. 1968: Filipinos Connecting to the World
PLDT became a Filipino-controlled corporation
bought by Ramon Cojuangco
December 20, 1967, a group of Filipinos
entrepreneurs and businessmen led by Ramon
Cojuangco took control over PLDT

6. 1970: PLDT was nationalized by the government
– President Ferdinand Marcos
1981: The company purchased all of the assets
and liabilities of republic Telephone Company,
becoming the country’s telephone monopoly.
1986: PLDT company was reprivatized

7. 1987: Cellular Telephone Network
PLDT establishes the country’s first cellular
telephone network

8. 1993: Birth of the Philippine Internet
With the support of the Department of Science
and Technology and the Industrial Research
Foundation, the PhilNet Project was born.

9. 1994: Our First Internet Connection
Benjie Tan, who was working for ComNet
established Philipines’ first connection to the
Internet at a PLDT network center in Makati City
March 29, 1994 @ 1:15am, The router CISCO
7000 that connected the Philippines to the
Internet was switched ON

10. Dr. William Torres become the Grandfather of
the Philippine Internet

11. 2010: 29.8 million Internet users in the Philippines
2011: Philippines was named “Social Networking Capital of the World”
with a percentage of 93.9 for Facebook alone.

12. 2012: The Cybercrime prevention act of 2012 was officially recorded as
Republic Act No. 10175 on September 12, 2012

13. 2013: The Massive Growth of the Country’s Mobile Networks

14. 2014: Fastest Growing Connections
The Philippines named fastest growing Internet population in the last five
years with a growth of 531%
Number of Philippine Internet users at 38 million out of a population of
100 million

15. TOP Filipino Online Activities
Facebook
Gaming
Shopping
Online videos
Searching