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Just read in the news that Northern Mindanao’s Internet connection expanded by 500% compared to last year’s.

Northern Mindanao had a total of 26,788 Internet connections as of the second quarter, this year, up by 570.87 percent compared to 3993 connections in the same period of 2006, a Sun.Star report said Monday.

“Of this figure, Cruztelco posted the highest increase of 1,600 percent, followed by Sotelco, 1,264 percent, PLDT, 1,003.51 percent and Philcom, 826.45 percent but those of PTT dropped by 51.67 percent,” Regional Director Teodoro D. Buenavista, Jr. of the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC), Northern Mindanao, said.

Per share of the region’s total internet connections, however, PhilCom contributed the biggest share of 68.65 percent, followed by Sotelco, 25.46 percent, PLDT, 2.35 percent, ICC-Bayan Tel, 2.14 percent and Cable 21, 1.12 percent while the rest of the providers like Cruztelco, Plaseco, PT&T and TMSI also contributed less than 1 percent each. [source]

With the gift of connectivity comes the blessings of communication, learning and access to information that will hopefully make lives more productive and better.

Hopefully because of this we’ll also get to see a lot more bloggers in every corner of the island promoting Mindanao so that it won’t be such a mystery to the folks who just get to view it from whats being said in the news, which is often not so picturesque.