MANILA, Philippines—Presumptive president-elect Sen. Benigno Aquino III should consider electronically connecting the bureaucracy despite the controversy stirred by the scuttled $329-million NBN-ZTE deal, Malacañang said Wednesday.
Executive Secretary Mendoza observed that the technical problems on the electronic transmission of votes in the May 10 elections had highlighted the need for a broadband network in the country.
He said that in Southeast Asia, only the Philippines and Myanmar lacked such a network.
“If we had a national broadband, problems on the electronic transmission would not have cropped up. I hope the next administration will consider the national broadband network,” he told reporters.
Mendoza was himself charged for signing the broadband network contract as then Transportation and Communication Secretary, but said he had been cleared of any liability by the Ombudsman.
The Ombudsman had cleared President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and First Gentleman Jose Miguel Arroyo of graft charges as well as of charges that they conspired to stop whistle-blower Rodolfo Lozada Jr. from testifying on the matter.
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we really need that.. as the technology rises and computers are everywhere broadband becomes a daily need.
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