MANILA, Philippines (Apr. 2026) — The spaghetti wires dangling over Philippine streets have become a symbol of something bigger: a telecoms infrastructure that businesses have outgrown. A Singapore-based cloud telephony provider is betting that the country is finally ready to move past it.
Velox Networks announced its entry into the Philippines on April 9, making it the company’s third Southeast Asian market after Singapore and Malaysia. The expansion is timed deliberately around the Konektadong Pinoy Act (Republic Act No. 12234), signed earlier in 2026, which opens the Philippine telecoms sector to new market entrants and mandates the development of shared communications infrastructure.
For a cloud-based provider like Velox, the law removes a major historical barrier: the need to invest in physical network infrastructure to compete with entrenched incumbents.
Why now
The regulatory shift is one piece. The physical infrastructure push is another. Metro Manila has passed resolutions requiring the removal or underground burial of overhead cables, and Cebu City has mandated underground cabling for new developments. House Bill 1403, the Anti-Dangling Wires and Cables Act, proposes nationwide cable management standards with penalties for non-compliance.
Together, these moves create an opening for cloud-native providers to step in as the country transitions away from legacy cable networks.
“Cloud telephony eliminates the dependency on physical cable networks entirely,” said Martin Nygate, Founder and CEO of Velox Networks. “For a country that’s actively trying to move beyond its cable infrastructure challenges, that’s a compelling proposition.”
What Velox offers
Velox’s platform targets the over one million MSMEs in the Philippines that still run business communications through personal mobile phones and consumer messaging apps — setups that increasingly conflict with data privacy and compliance requirements.
The platform provides cloud-based business phone numbers, automatic call recording and archiving, CRM integrations, multi-location support across Manila, Cebu, and regional offices, and enterprise-grade security and uptime — all without physical hardware investment.
Velox has set up a 12-person local team distributed across Manila, Cebu, and other key cities, rather than managing the market remotely.
“We’re not entering the Philippines remotely,” Nygate said. “The regulatory environment is moving in the right direction, the business community is ready, and we’re committed to being here for the long term.”
