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Press Release - Improved internet services even in far flung areas expected with the increase in the budget for the National Broadband Program-- Angara

December 13, 2020 Improved internet services even in far flung areas expected with the increase in the budget for the National Broadband Program Angara Senator Sonny Angara said the country should begin to experience better internet connectivity even in remote and inaccessible areas once the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) completes the first phase of its National Broadband Program (NBP). Under the P4.5 trillion General Appropriations Bill that was ratified last Wednesday by Congress, Angara noted that the DICT s budget for the NBP was doubled from the proposed P902.194 million in the National Expenditure Program to P1.9 billion. This is on top of the budget for the implementation of the free Wifi in public places and in the state universities and colleges (SUCs) programs of the DICT.

The 2021 budget

Senator Sonny Angara The Senate and the House of Representatives recently approved the bicameral conference committee report on the 2021 national budget, amounting to P4.1 trillion. This is historic because of the circumstances surrounding the budget’s passage more so because of the unprecedented humanitarian challenges to which it aims to respond. The bicam officially convened twice with most panel members attending virtually. In between those meetings were almost daily conversations among myself, as chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance, my counterpart, Rep. Eric Go Yap, as chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations, our respective vice-chairpersons, and colleagues from the Legislative and Executive.

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