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Robert Joseph de Claro was sworn in as the new secretary of the Department of Information and Communications Technology on October 13, replacing Henry Aguda, who resigned amid an Ombudsman probe into an alleged ghost internet scheme. The same day, the National Telecommunications Commission ordered NOW Telecom to pay ₱4.04 billion in unpaid supervision and regulation fees, and clarified that its draft rules on refurbished devices will not ban the secondhand phone market.
Financial analyst Alexander Cabrera testified on Day 38 of Vice President Sara Duterte's impeachment trial about unexplained withdrawals and undeclared assets, while President Marcos confirmed the resignation of the information and communications technology secretary amid a ghost-project investigation.
Information and Communications Technology Secretary Henry Aguda resigned as the Ombudsman investigates alleged ghost connectivity projects, while a Quezon City subscriber reported a month-long PLDT outage and Globe counted 1,245 cable-theft cases.
Ombudsman Jesus Crispin Remulla said Malacañang accepted the resignation of Information and Communications Technology Secretary Henry Aguda, three days after the Palace denied it. Separately, Globe At Home subscribers in Pampanga and elsewhere described internet connections that stayed down after payment and after a stated restoration date.
Day 37 of the Sara Duterte impeachment trial produced a P817.87-million unexplained-wealth allegation, while the expanded no-contact traffic apprehension policy and September inflation at 7.2 percent drew separate scrutiny across the items captured here.
PLDT took a regional innovation award for its in-house AI risk tool and its wireless unit Smart opened iPhone 18 preorders, while Reddit users traded complaints about technician tampering and hard-to-cancel subscriptions.
Domestic institutions oversubscribe the GCash operator's initial public offering as underwriters seek a bigger Filipino allocation, while the impeachment trial surfaces P96 million in undeclared joint deposits. Entertainment, sports, and corporate items round out the day's captured coverage.
PLDT postponed the P24.2-billion listing of its data center arm VITRO to 2027, while GCash users gained access to Mynt's initial public offering at P660 minimum. Both moves reshaped the Philippine capital markets calendar on the same day.
Globe reported 1,245 cases of telecom cable theft as of September 2026, while Converge said its new Bifrost subsea cable kept a Singapore link outage from disrupting most customers. Both stories put network resilience and infrastructure protection at the center of the day's technology coverage.
Globe Telecom pushed for a private-sector role in the Philippines' Pax Silica technology corridor and confirmed it had restored internet service after a subsea cable fault slowed connections. The day's entertainment coverage was dominated by the Patrick Garcia and Jennylyn Mercado controversy.
Philippine technology, telecommunications and digital-finance stories led the day's captured coverage, from a restored undersea cable and a defaced government website to new device launches and a bank's push into mobile load. Political and entertainment items also drew heavy newspaper space.
The telecom regulator defended P100,000-a-day penalties against major carriers for poor mobile broadband even as an undersea cable failure between the Philippines and Singapore disrupted connections. PLDT closed its P2.94-billion buyout of Radius Telecoms and Globe extended Starlink roaming to Japan.
