Converge sets expansion for boom in data centers | Inquirer Business

MANILA -Converge ICT Solutions Inc. is spending at least $60 million to put up three data centers given the increasing demand for data storage in the advent of accelerated digitalization. Dennis Uy, the CEO and founder of the internet service provider, told reporters in Manila last week their goal of building data hubs in Pampanga, Quezon City and Cebu in the next 18 to 24 months. These will accompany existing facilities in Clark and Pasig. Each data center will be built with 600 racks, which can be expanded to 1,000. A rack houses servers, net ...

With Sky Cable out, Converge scaling up pay TV presence

Converge ICT Solutions Inc. is ready to fill the void in the pay TV space as Sky Cable is about to exit the cable business...

Converge to deploy AI on the front line to answer customer queries | Inquirer Business

MANILA -Converge ICT Solutions Inc. is building an artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled contact center—with human agents only as backup—to improve customer support and management services for its over 2 million subscribers. By the second half of next year, the internet service provider hopes to operate the facility, which is backed by customer relationship management company Salesforce. This will be the first of its kind in the country, the telco said. As of press time, Converge failed to answer questions whether a number of its workforce w ...

PLDT takes over Sky Cable’s internet business | Philstar.com

PLDT Inc. has acquired the broadband business of Lopez-owned Sky Cable Corp. for almost P7 billion in a deal that cements the market dominance of the telco giant.

Red Sea cables have been damaged, disrupting global internet traffic | CNN Business

Damage to undersea cables in the Red Sea is disrupting global telecommunications networks and forcing internet providers to reroute as much as a quarter of traffic between Asia, Europe and the Midd...

Undersea International Internet Cables Cut in Africa

UK and US military intelligence officials have warned that little is done to guard the safety of undersea internet cables.

SA internet crunch: Another month to go before cables are repaired | Business

Repair work is under way on the damaged subsea cable infrastructure that caused widespread internet outages a month ago. It will still take a month to complete on current schedules.

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BBC NEWS | Technology | Severed cables disrupt internet

Internet services are disrupted in the Middle East, Egypt and India following damage to two undersea cables.

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