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Published June 6, 2021, 12:07 PM By Eliseo M. Rio Jr. In its latest press statement, DICT tried to veil the truth with an illogical computation that on a price per Mbps basis, the MIS-VSAT cost is only P14,285.71 per month per Mbps while the DICT-UNDP VSAT cost is a whopping P63,826.67 per month per Mbps. But no matter what magical computations DICT makes to bring us to wonderland, on the actual basis that the government is spending real money, the cost of the MIS-VSAT will never go lower than P90,000/month/site, nor will the DICT-UNDP VSAT go higher than P19,148/month/site.

By Eliseo M. Rio Jr. In its recent press release, DICT claims that the DICT VSAT is “20 times faster; five times cheaper than previous foreign contractors.” It is like saying that a plane is 20 times faster yet five times cheaper than a car, which people will immediately say is not true. But that is exactly what DICT wants people to believe by clouding the truth. DICT Undersecretary Emmanuel Rey R. Caintic himself said, “the DICT-deployed Managed Internet Service-Very Small Aperture Technology (MIS VSAT), will provide a Maximum Internet Rate (MIR) of 25 megabits per seconds (Mbps) and a...