‘Slow, congested, expensive’ (Internet, like the Metro Manila traffic)

In describing the current state of internet service in the country during an important forum in Quezon City this week, acting chief of the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) Eliseo Rio, Jr. likened the service to the maddening traffic in Metro Manila: “It is slow, congested and expensive.”

Residents of the metropolis, who have borne helplessly the government’s cluelessness on the solution to the traffic problem, would quickly grasp what Rio was driving at. The problems dogging the internet service are severe. The situation is as bad as the traffic in the capital.