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The Internet in the Philippines has been undergoing development since it was first made available in 1994. As of September 30, 2011, more than 30,000,000 people used the internet in the country accounting for 33% of the total population. The Philippines has the slowest internet connectivity speed in the southeast region, and is among the slowest in the world.〔 The top-level domain of the country is .ph. ==History== The Internet first made its connection to the Philippines on March 29, 1994. On that date the Philippine Network Foundation (PHNet) connected the country and its people to Sprint in the United States via a 64 kbit/s link.〔Miguel A. L. Paraz: (Developing a Viable Framework for Commercial Internet Operations in the Asia-Pacific Region: The Philippine Experience. ) ISOC, INET 1997〕 A year after the connection, The Public Telecommunications Act of the Philippines was made into law. Securing a franchise is now optional for value-added service providers. This law enabled many other organizations to establish connections to the Internet, such as to create Web sites and having their own Internet services or providing Internet service and access to other groups and individuals. These developments are very significant for the country's Internet sector. However the growth of the Internet in the Philippines was hindered by many obstacles including unequal distribution of Internet infrastructure throughout the country, its cost and corruption in the government.〔(Philippines - Public Access Landscape Study ) Research Team Emmanuel Lallana, University of Washington Center for Information & Society (CIS), 2009.〕 But these obstacles did not altogether halt all the developments. More connection types were made available to more Filipinos. Increasing bandwidth and a growing number of Filipino Internet users as years passed were proof of the continuing development of the Internet in the country. The Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012, codified as ''Republic Act No. 10175'', criminalized cybersquatting, cybersex, child pornography, identity theft, illegal access to data and libel.〔(Republic Act No. 10175 ), An Act Defining Cybercrime, Providing for the Prevention, Investigation, Suppression and the Imposition of Penalties therefor and for Other Purposes. Approved by President of the Philippines BENIGNO S. AQUINO III on September 12, 2012〕 The act has been criticized for its provision on criminalizing libel, which is perceived to be a curtailment in freedom of expression. After several petitions submitted to the Supreme Court of the Philippines questioned the constitutionality of the Act, the Supreme Court issued a temporary restraining order on October 9, 2012, stopping implementation of the Act for 120 days. A Magna Carta for Philippine Internet Freedom has been filed in the Philippine legislature to, among others, repeal Republic Act No. 10175.〔("The Wisdom of Crowds: Crowdsourcing Net Freedom" ), Jonathan de Santos, ''Yahoo! News Philippines'', 21 January 2013. Retrieved 26 September 2013.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Internet in the Philippines」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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