MAKATI CITY – Globe Telecom is building a new Fiber Optic Backbone Network to boost its Internet services in the Visayas, including Negros Occidental, as part of its $100 million high speed improvement measures, Gil Genio, Globe Business head, said Tuesday.

“Hopefully by the end of this year we will see a world of difference from an Internet point of view in the Visayas,” said Genio, who is also chief operating officer  of Innove Communications Inc.

Genio said that, of their more than 120,000 Internet subscribers at the end of 2007, half of them were from the Visayas.

‘Water supply, credit access
needed to address rice crisis’

ILOILO CITY – Efforts to avert a rice crisis in the country should focus on ensuring water supply to farms, greater credit access to farmers and providing experts and technology especially in the rural areas, an official of a national organization of rice millers and traders said.

Ricardo Provido, vice president of the Philippine Confederation of Grain Millers and Traders, also assured that there is adequate rice supply at present, but the country should also be prepared for the coming lean months.

PhilCongrains groups around 400 big rice millers and traders in the country.

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