BNS officers Wilson, Jane and John were on hand to greet and chat with Mr Cheng Che Hoo, Associate Director(Infrastructure) Information Tehcnology Services Center. Mr Cheng was in town to attend the APRICOT 2009 held at the Sofitel, Manila.
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NTC Memo Dec 2008 Now Dead??
In an update to the NTC Draft Dec 2008, we just got word that CICT Commissioner Sec Roxas Chua and Monchito Ibrahim suddenly showed up in the NTC hearing. As most of you know, the NTC is UNDER the CICT. What do you know? The public hearing was suddenly cancelled!! It seems the CICT , which is the policy setting body wanted to find out more about this draft. The NTC seems to NOT have informed the CICT about this. Hence the sudden appearance of the top brass in CICT and the unceremonious cancellation of the hearings!
Insiders intimate that such a move probably means that the NTC draft is now dead in the water. We at BNS surely hopes so.
Review of Draft NTC Registration Circular
BNS is calling for urgent and rational review of the Proposed Draft NTC Memo cirular caling for registration of web content. http://portal.ntc.gov.ph/wps/_mc/MC2009/electronic_games.html.
In essence this circular aims to require content providers (website owners, bloggers) to register with the NTC at the following amounts: Filing Fee of 300.00, Annual Registration fee of 6,000.00, with surcharge and penalties of 50% and 100% if the application is filed before or after 6 months from date of expiry.
From a hosting perspective, this registration requirement would add undue burden to our hosted clients in terms of additional procedures AND annual fees. This increases the costs of an online presence. Hosting clients and hosting companies in the Philippines would not be competitve because of this. It makes hosted sites in the Philippines more expensive compared to other countries.
Due to the worldwide nature of hosting service, clients may opt instead to be hosted OUTSIDE of the Philippines. Thus, not only will this regulation become moot and inutile, it would also cause the death on online businesses in the Philippines. This forces businesses away from the Philippines.
In the end, this will in fact hamper the growth of online content in the Philippines, rather than stimulate it.
As the draft purpotedly aims to “promote a fair, efficient and responsive market to stimulate growth and development of the telecommunications facilities and services” under RA 7925, this requirement for registration coupled with huge fees rans counter to RA 7925.
It will kill rather than stimulate growth.
If the aim is to protect consumers, hosting companies maintains records of the owners of sites. If there are issues with the website, hosting companies and service providers have the records to assist the Philippine Government protect the interests of the consuming public.
A registration procedure coupled with high annual fees is NOT needed to be able to identify the owners of the website.
3 European Underwater cables, down
Three underwater cables connecting Italy and Egypt in the Mediterranean Sea we’re cut, damaging almost more than 75 percent of traffic between the Middle East, Europe and America. This caused some routes may not be visible.
The Effects:
Disruptions of 70 percent in Egypt and 60 percent in India were reported, along with problems in Afghanistan-AWCC, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Kuwait, Maldives, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates.
1.7 million Internet users in the UAE have been affected by the Internet disruption. Mahesh Jaishanker, an executive director for Du, said, “The submarine cable cuts in FLAG Europe-Asia cable 8.3 km away from Alexandria, Egypt and SEA-ME-WE 4 affected at least 60 million users in India, 12 million in Pakistan, six million in Egypt and 4.7 million in Saudi Arabia.”[1] A router for a university in Tehran was not responding, causing some reports of a total loss of connectivity for Iran.[19][20] However, the Iranian embassy in Abu Dhabi reported that “everything was fine.”[21][22] Additional reports and analysis showed that while Iran was affected, it “fared much better” than many other countries in the same geographic area.[23][24]
Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_submarine_cable_disruption
You can view the map here: http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Technology/Pix/pictures/2008/02/01/SeaCableHi.jpg
Reports said, France telecom will fix it by Monday. BNS Hosting clients with Web Mirroring wont be affected as their web visitors in Europe and Middle East will be served by our European server.
Web mirroring on *.prepys.com!
We proudly announce that our prepys.com blogroll is now included in the list of the web mirrored sites in BNS Hosting. This means faster loading of pages for our international visitors!
Visit www.prepys.com to see the all the blogsites’ links.
eRadioportal Band Showdown: “Ang Pagtitipon”
Bitstop Media Production presents eRadioPortal Band Showdown “Ang Pagtitipon”; a joint project of Bitstop Network Services in cooperation with Councilor Michael Fernandez of the City of Dagupan. We aim to help the local bands in enhancing their talents and also by give them the right exposure.
“Ang Pagtitipon” will be webcasted live over the internet via www.eradioportal.com. This lets music enthusiasts and people all over the world watch and hear the best of the bests Pinoy Bands based in Dagupan and nearby towns.
Join us for a night of hard kicking performances of Dagupan’s finest bands on December 20, 2008 at Corner Zamora St., A.B. Fernandez Ave., Dagupan City.
Rakrakan na!
MTV Charity Event Live via Webcast
BNS will be sending a team led by Mike V. to webcast the MTV Staying Alive Summit 2008. To learn more about Staying Alive, click here. To view the live webcast on the event date, kindly click here: MTV Staying Alive Webcast
Web Mirror Expanded for Europe
BNSHosting is now testing our european node of WebMirroring. Once fully implemented, our european node will complement our existing nodes in Asia and US. This will improve our service by providing WebMirroring Clients with even faster service for Europe and African clients.
Interested website owners can email team[at]bnshosting.net to deploy this afffordable service for your website.
Libon LGU Deploys WebMirror Service
Libon LGU (www.libon.gov.ph) website is now served from multiple host servers. This allows the user to have a better (shorter) download experience of the Libon LGU website. Click on the icon below to learn more about how WebMirroring service from BNShosting helps serve your webpages faster!