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Saturday, 16 February 2008 04:56 | |||
A Scoop of a News Report by the MabuhayRadio.com (Part I of a Series of Articles) For the first time since the controversy on the cancelled national broadband network (NBN) project – as might be supplied by the ZTE Corporation of China – President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo (PGMA) broke her silence and said that she was taking the ZTE issue "very seriously." Several individuals reportedly belonging to the President’s inner circle tried to revive the so-called NBN-ZTE project. In the meantime, a group of Overseas-Filipino workers (OFWs) and Filipino Americans has sent through channel to the Office of the President a proposal to make the Philippines the pilot project for an innovative broadband technology. There are many benefits from the OFW-led Asian-American consortium’s proposal -- should the Philippine Government approve the project – that will accrue for the Filipino people. The first benefit is that it will make the Philippines the SELLER of a patented broadband technology instead of being the BUYER of a broadband system from a Mainland-Chinese company like the ZTE Corporation or other foreign suppliers. The consortium said that the Philippines would not need to obtain a loan to have a national-broadband network (NBN), as the proponents will instead invest in the innovative broadband technology proposed for the Philippines.
Editor’s Note: Portions of this report came from a press release issued by the Philippine Embassy in Washington, DC, about the reaction of PGMA to the NBN-ZTEgate. "We want to fight corruption," PGMA said as she scored those with political ambition for putting "easy rhetoric over lazy charges" and placing personal ambition ahead of national progress.
Editor’s Note: To read again Part II of this series, please click on this link, The Broadband-ZTEgate Scandal Shows Not-so-Broad Mind of Filipino Leaders # # #
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