Calling it a bridge of information and service, President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. led the grand launch of the National Fiber Backbone (NFB) Phases 2 and 3, a year after launching Phase 1 of the first and only government-owned fiber backbone project, in Palo, Leyte on 7 July 2025. Phases 2 and 3 expand the national fiber backbone by an additional 1,781 kilometers of fiber optic cables in Regions II (Cagayan Valley), IV-A (CALABARZON), V (Bicol), VIII (Eastern Visayas), X and XI (Mindanao). It fur