The world’s leading blockchain grid solution provider SmartMesh and MeshBox held a signing ceremony with Star Telecom, the only satellite telecommunications operator in the Philippines, in Manila. William Lima, Special Envoy for China affairs in the office of the President of the Republic of the Philippines, and two assistants attended the meeting. “This is a small step for the blockchain world,” said Henry Wang, CEO of the SmartMesh foundation. “But it is a big step for connecting Philippines and the beginning of the Token Switching era of the Internet of Value!” “This will enable millions of sari-sari stores to be upgraded to become gateways to 40 million Filipinos without the Internet,” said by Joey Uy, Chairman of Star Telecom and First Telecom in the Philippines. In addition, the Philippine President’s Special Envoy William Lima also said: “The Philippines is the world’s third largest remittance recipient countries, overseas Filipino workers (OFW) desire to contact the family through the Internet audio and video, SmartMesh cooperation with Star Telecom OFW can in overseas work more comfortable and let their family also lower cost to receive the remittance.”
