Company Site Visits

National Telecommunications Commission

Regional Office No. 7

MISSION:

The National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) shall maintain and continuously improve a regulatory regime conducive to the development and provision of an affordable, viable, reliable and accessible telecommunications infrastructure and services.

VISION:

By 2015, the National Telecommunication Commission (NTC) shall be a stronger and more pro-active regulatory agency able to steer the telecommunications sector as a primary engine for national progress and development.

TYPE of COMPANY: Government

COMPANY DESCRIPTION:

• Regulates the installation, operation and maintenance of radio stations both for private and public use (Act No. 3846, as amended).
• Regulates and supervises the provision of public telecommunications services (RA 7925, CA146, as amended).
• Manages the radio spectrum (Act No. 3846, as amended and RA7925).
• Regulates and supervises radio and television broadcast stations, cable television (CATV) and pay television (EO546 and EO205)

PLDT - INNOLAB

MISSION:

To reinforce PLDT’s efforts to anticipate technological development and trends, detect major technological breakthroughs, explore technologies and business models, expedite the development of innovative and functional services, and reduce time to market, thereby enhancing the PLDT Group business performance and competitiveness and providing the Filipinos with quality ICT solutions and services.

VISION:

PLDT Innolab aims to transform into a world-class laboratory facility, becoming the country’s leading ICT research and development center, driving trends and defining the future of telecommunications.

COMPANY DESCRIPTION:

Started in the year 2003, PLDT Innolab is set to become the foundation of focused research, new generation product development, and innovation in service and technology in the Philippines. Moreover, it provides an environment for the telecommunications industry, government and academe to engage on new technologies and solutions that will pave the way for future communications. At PLDT Innolab, visitors from around the country have the opportunity to identify current and future needs, exchange knowledge and ideas with PLDT experts, and talk about how communications and technology is changing every aspect of our lives.

Futhermore, PLDT Innolab is the venue for testing and simulation of new and better ICT product and business solutions, at the same time serving as the conduit for the training and education of all the future users of PLDT’s technology. Indeed, it will not only be a think tank of ideas, but also a strong training ground for learning.

NEC Telecom Software

COMPANY STATEMENTS GOAL and MISSION:

• Corporate Philosophy - We support our customer's value creation by providing them with well-tested, advance information and communication technology solutions that achieve total customer satisfaction.
• Management Vision - We persistently pursue to be the industry leader that is trusted by our customers and to contribute high-quality, cost-effective and prompt solutions to our customers beyond that offered by our competitors.
• Management Policy - We will achieve steady growth by continuously increasing our corporate business value resulting from professionally managing the acquisition of advanced technologies in the information and communication industry, guaranteeing total customer satisfaction, and putting high priority on our employees' welfare to maintain a highly, motivated world-class workforce.
• Quality Policy - We will become a software engineering company that consistently offers the quality, cost and delivery requirements our customers want to keep their competitive advantage over their rivals by continuously improving our process maturity.

COMPANY DESCRIPTION:

Public Business

NEC provides safe, secure and efficient social solutions for domestic and foreign governments, governmental agencies, public institutions, financial institutions and other organizations by combining its distinctive technology assets, including networking and sensing technologies, with broad systems integration expertise and customer assets.

Enterprise Business

NEC provides IT solutions to meet private-sector demand, centering on manufacturing and retail/services, while launching new services to help create new value for customers. We intend to accelerate development in retail distribution infrastructure in particular, both in Japan and overseas, as it will be a growth field going forward.

Telecom Carrier Business

NEC supplies equipment required for network implementation to telecom carriers, along with network control platform systems and operating services. NEC’s wealth of experience in large-scale network implementation and strong technical capabilities contribute to the development of highly reliable communications networks.

System Platform Business

NEC provides products for business, ranging from mobile terminals to network equipment, computer equipment, software products and service platforms, and solutions and services based on them. NEC’s solution platforms, which organically fuse these products and solutions and services, reduce labor and improve efficiency in customers’ businesses, and at the same time, create new value based on ICT.

DOST Region 7 - GEOPLAN

MISSION:

To promote GIT and provide efficient/effective professional GIT services to clients (GO’s/NGO’s) in order to support improved spatial decision-making related to sustainable development.

VISION:

To be the leading alternative GIT provider in the region that is well established and sustained.

TYPE of COMPANY: Government

COMPANY DESCRIPTION:

GEOPLAN Cebu Foundation, Inc. is a non-stock, non-profit Geographic Information System Service Center in Cebu City, Philippines, which supports spatial planning activities of planners and decision makers. The GIS Center is operational since 1991 and started as a support unit to the Province of Cebu (until 1995). 

The Center is equipped with digital mapping and GIS tools and avails of large databases containing information about the Provinces of Cebu, Bohol, Siquijor, Negros Oriental and other selected provinces.

PENTAX - RICOH Imaging Products

MISSION:

At the RICOH Group, we are committed to providing excellence to improve the quality of living.

VISION:

To be the most trusted brand with irresistible appeal in the global market.

COMPANY DESCRIPTION:

Pentax Corporation is one of the world’s best-known names in the camera industry, and has long served as a photographic equipment pioneer. The company continues to produce cameras and other photographic equipment, including its *ist D Digital SLR cameras, the Optio-series of digital compact cameras, the MZ range of autofocus SLR film cameras, and the ESPOP-series of compact film cameras. Pentax also produces interchangeable camera lenses and lens adapters, as well as other accessories, and a variety of other optical-related products, including binoculars and telescopes; medical equipment, including endoscopes and fiberscopes; and medical fine ceramics products, including its Apaceram artificial bones and artificial dental roots. In addition, Pentax has developed a number of software and information technology operations, including text-to-speech and related applications. Pentax also continues to produce its original product, optical lenses, through a joint venture with Seiko formed by a merger in 2003.

PAG-ASA (Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration)

MISSION:

The primary mission of PAGASA is to protect life and property against natural hazards due to typhoons, floods, drought, giant waves, high seas, etc., by utilizing scientific knowledge and instruments to ensure the safety, economic security and quality of life of all Filipinos and their environment. PAGASA also aims to promote national progress and contribute to regional socio-economic development through various applications of meteorology, geophysics and space sciences (including astronomy). 

VISION:

PAGASA envisions itself to be a center of excellence in meteorology, operational hydrology, climatology, astronomy and other allied sciences, and to have world-class capability in monitoring, analysis, forecasting and warning of tropical weather systems such as typhoons, monsoons and Intertropical Convergence Zones (ITCZ). 

TYPE of COMPANY: Government

COMPANY DESCRIPTION:

PAGASA, one of the attached agencies of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) under its Scientific and Technical Services Institutes, is mandated to “provide protection against natural calamities and utilize scientific knowledge as an effective instrument to insure the safety, well being and economic security of all the people, and for the promotion of national progress.” (Section 2, Statement of Policy, Presidential Decree No. 78; December 1972 as amended by Presidential Decree No. 1149; August 1977).