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Is the internet in the Philippines getting better?

Internet speeds are on the rise in the Philippines. According to the latest reports from the Ookla Speedtest Global Index, the Philippines has jumped 15% to an average of 68.94 Mbps for fixed broadband internet speeds, pushing the country above the global median 66.25 Mbps. Network upgrades, new infrastructure, and more competition among telco operators […]

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Preparing Your Office for Hybrid Working

In 2020, the world went into lockdown and work culture as we knew it had to change overnight. Over 2 years later and we are now staring down the next big shift for businesses – the return to the office. Unlike the move to remote working, very few businesses are trying to get their entire […]

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Why the Philippines is building more data centers

The largest data center in the Philippines is being built in Cainta, Rizal this year, and will provide a huge boost to the internet infrastructure throughout the country. Singapore data center company SpaceDC, which is investing more than $700 million into this facility, said the hyperscale data center campus dubbed MNL1 would cater to the […]

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Test your romantic knowledge with this Happy Hearts Day quiz!

It’s Valentines Day and RISE is back with another Happy Hearts Day quiz! This time let’s test your love team/friendship duo IQ. Good luck! 😄

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Our Mission: To Accelerate Internet for the Philippines RISE delivers fast and reliable connectivity services to a range of industries, while providing proactive customer support directly from our engineers. Using precise tools and procedures, the RISE network is designed to accommodate international best practices and optimal connectivity for our customers. Resiliency, diversity, and longevity are […]

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We tested 4 internet myths to see which ones are real.

Since the internet was born, and the very first email sent, people have been sharing wild theories across the world wide web. Spooky stories, Nigerian princes, conspiracy theories – everything is possible on the information super highway! Between these tall tales and suspicious scams lies something more insidious: the internet myth. A whisper heard around […]

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Will 2021 be the last year your office has a virtual Christmas party?

‘Tis the season and once again office workers around the world are wondering how to host their Christmas parties virtually. WIth vaccines now widely available and many offices making plans to reopen, the “new normal” from the last 2 years is coming to an end. At the same time, many people are still working from […]

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Introduction to Data Privacy – the three principles of privacy

In the modern world, almost everything there is to know about you is available online. Your medical records, your education and work history, your family connections, maybe even a few shameful secrets, are very likely to be digitally stored somewhere. In previous articles, we’ve looked at data security as a way that you (and your […]

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Why networks need to constantly upgrade their infrastructure

In 1965, with some of the first computers ever built only a decade old, Intel co-founder Gordon Moore posited that the number of transistors on a microchip would double every 2 years. Colloquially known as Moore’s Law, this was an observation that the speed of technological advancement was about to rapidly accelerate. While this sounds […]

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How the internet is helping the world reach sustainable development goals

Living in the age of COVID has been difficult for everyone, but it has been a lot harder on those who can’t access the internet. When many of us switched to working from home, Zoom coffee dates and online schooling, people without reliable internet access were left in the dark. The internet allows us to […]