BREAKING: Starlink Direct-to-Cell receives government approval in the Philippines. 🇵🇭
• Globe has received regulatory approval to commercially launch Starlink Direct-to-Cell mobile service in the Philippines.
• The service lets standard LTE smartphones connect directly to Starlink satellites, no satellite phone, extra hardware, or special app required.
• The Philippines becomes the first country in Southeast Asia to commercially roll out Starlink Direct-to-Cell through a mobile operator.
• It is designed to provide coverage in remote, geographically isolated, and disaster-hit areas where traditional cell towers are unavailable.
The service is expected to strengthen communications during emergencies while extending mobile coverage across thousands of islands.
Just back from the Philippines. One of the most exciting digital asset markets in SEA right now, jumping to 4th globally in TRM Labs' Country Crypto Adoption Index.
Their regulators get it. Collaborative, forward-thinking, focused on outcomes: consumer protection, innovation, growth. Rare combo.
Met great people at the Department of Finance including Secretary Frederick Go, the SEC’s Chairman Francis Lim, and the BlockShoals team. Real conversations about where the industry is heading.
Big one: the SEC's PhiliFintech Innovation Office just gave BlockShoals in-principle approval under StratBox. This is what good regulation looks like. Build pathways, not walls. Programs like that signal that the Philippines is serious. Confidence attracts capital. Capital funds innovation. Flywheel starts here.
Bullish on the Philippines. And crypto - buying the dip. More soon. 🇵🇭
You can cook the books, but not the chain.
Sen. @bamaquino is calling for the national budget to be recorded on blockchain where every peso spent is traceable and every project has a digital receipt.
In a country where ghost projects and missing funds make headlines, this could mean real accountability.
🎥 @bncdotph
“The link between lack of sleep and cancer is now so strong that the World Health Organization has classified any form of nighttime shift work as a probable carcinogen."
Twala, a blockchain-powered digital identity and digital signature platform, recently collaborated with the Philippine Supreme Court (SC) to provide inputs in their ongoing work to draft rules to allow electronic notarization in the country. #SparkUpPH
https://t.co/cu2tYSzqvV
Five percent of Shigella infections, a diarrhea-causing bacteria, are now resistant to standard antibiotics, according to the CDC. Scientists worry this could be a predictor of what’s to come with other species of bacteria. https://t.co/9xTnQIxDXN
The Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) permanently shut down its trading floor for brokers at its headquarters in Taguig City on Friday, marking the end of the traditional way of doing business at the local stock market. https://t.co/BCi62k5lpU
Asia’s first-ever “center for exorcism” is set to rise in the Philippines after the Archdiocese in Manila on Tuesday announced it has started the construction of the facility.
https://t.co/6xtJHyNzof