{"id":777015243,"date":"2024-05-06T09:49:39","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T12:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777015243"},"modified":"2026-04-22T10:33:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T13:33:58","slug":"philippines-globe-telecom-blocks-1345-illegal-gambling-sites-in-q1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/philippines-globe-telecom-blocks-1345-illegal-gambling-sites-in-q1","title":{"rendered":"Philippines: Globe Telecom blocks 1,345 illegal gambling sites in Q1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The number is up from 126 in Q1 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Philippines.- Mobile company <strong>Globe Telecom <\/strong>says it took steps to prevent access to\u00a01,345 illegal gambling sites in the first quarter of the year. It blocked access to 260 domains in January, 855 in February and 230 in March through its content filtering system.\u00a0The company blocked\u00a0just\u00a0126 illegal gambling sites in the first quarter of 2023.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Globe said it had observed an increase in illegal gambling on its network, with just 52 domains blocked in 2021, rising to 396 in\u00a02022,\u00a0and 4,237 in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>See also:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/philippines-10-arrested-over-alleged-gambling-and-scam-operations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Philippines: 10 arrested over alleged gambling and scam&nbsp;operations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Anton Bonifacio<\/strong>, Globe&#8217;s chief information security officer, said\u00a0the\u00a0company has a social responsibility to protect its subscribers from gambling addiction. He said the company has invested $2.7m in building up its content filtering infrastructure to detect and block harmful sites on the internet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>See also:&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/philippine-police-arrest-16-over-illegal-facebook-raffle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Philippine police arrest 16 over illegal Facebook raffle<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number is up from 126 in Q1 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":777013070,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Globe Telecom significantly increased its blocking of illegal gambling sites in Q1 2024, preventing access to 1,345 domains, a substantial rise from 126 in Q1 2023. This escalation reflects a growing prevalence of illicit online gambling activity, prompting the telecommunications provider to invest $2.7 million in enhanced content filtering infrastructure to fulfill its social responsibility and protect subscribers.","focusai_entities":"Globe Telecom, Anton Bonifacio","focusai_location":"Philippines","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.95), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.85), tech_data (0.95), payments_fraud_aml (0.75), investor_analyst (0.8), supplier_vendor (0.85), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Impact on GGR?","query":"What is the estimated impact of this surge in illegal gambling sites on the GGR and NGR of licensed iGaming operators in the Philippines?"},{"label":"Regulatory Framework Efficacy?","query":"How does the current regulatory framework in the Philippines support or hinder ISPs like Globe Telecom in their efforts to combat illegal gambling, and what further legislative actions are anticipated?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16333],"tags":[4138],"class_list":["post-777015243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-online-gambling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777015243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777015243"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777015243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777015258,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777015243\/revisions\/777015258"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777013070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777015243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777015243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777015243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}