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                    [Title] => Local telcos rap ‘divide & rule’ tactic of US FCC
                    [Summary] => The country’s biggest telecommunications companies assailed yesterday a recent decision by the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) branding the ruling as "reverse whipsawing" or making Philippine telcos unfairly compete with one another.


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                    [Title] => Local telcos accuse AT&T of ‘bad faith’
                    [Summary] => Local telecommunications companies have accused US carrier AT&T of "bad faith" after the latter increased the amount it charges its American wholesalers for US calls to the Philippines without a corresponding increase in its cost.


The STAR obtained a copy of a recent communication from AT&T to all countries notifying them of the new rates for the respective countries. In the case of the Philippines, the new rate is 12 cents a minute for calls from the US to Philippine landlines and 16 cents for calls to mobile networks.


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                    [Title] => PLDT, AT&T talks end in stalemate
                    [Summary] => The first round of talks between US carrier AT&T and the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT) initiated by the former to find a solution to the current impasse regarding the increased charges imposed by Philippine carriers on foreign calls ended in a stalemate as both parties refused to give in to each other’s demands. 


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                    [Title] => PLDT confronts AT&T in HK
                    [Summary] => Telecommunications giant Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT) wants US carrier AT&T to have the order of the US Federal Communications Commission international bureau reversed PLDT, and lifted, with no finding whatsoever of unfair practices on the part of Philippine carriers, for any final agreement on new rates between the two telcos to materialize, The STAR learned yesterday 


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                    [Title] => America at the forefront of a lesser war
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His name is Donald Abelson, chief, International Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission, who wrote out an "Order" dated  March 10, 2003 that shocks us not because of its arbitrary issuance since said bureau is a mere coordinating body of the FCC, but because of its extremely simplistic rhetoric, its naiveté, and the absolute absence of any rationale contained therein.
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                    [Title] => NTC to telcos: Reject calls from US carriers
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                    [Title] => US gov’t bullying small RP telcos
                    [Summary] => PLDT, Smart, Globe, Digitel or Bayantel may be big by RP standards. But they’re just as small as dozens of state-wide telephone companies in the US, with a few million dollars capital each. Only two US telcos can be called giants: AT&T and WorldCom. AT&T may no longer be the "Mother Bell" of the ’60s, having been forced by antitrust suits to let go of noncore operating units. Still, it’s a multibillion-dollar colossus whose shadow covers wide swaths of the East and West Coasts.
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                    [Title] => RP telcos gird for tough legal fight over call rates
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PLDT, Globe ask US FCC to review ruling

April 15, 2003 - 12:00am

Two of the country’s biggest telecommunications companies have asked the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) en banc to review a ruling issued by an FCC bureau which, among other things, prohibited American...

Business

Local telcos rap ‘divide & rule’ tactic of US FCC

April 4, 2003 - 12:00am

The country’s biggest telecommunications companies assailed yesterday a recent decision by the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) branding the ruling as "reverse whipsawing" or making Philippine...

Business

Local telcos accuse AT&T of ‘bad faith’

March 28, 2003 - 12:00am

Local telecommunications companies have accused US carrier AT&T of "bad faith" after the latter increased the amount it charges its American wholesalers for US calls to the Philippines without a corresponding...

Business

PLDT, AT&T talks end in stalemate

March 26, 2003 - 12:00am

The first round of talks between US carrier AT&T and the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT) initiated by the former to find a solution to the current impasse regarding the increased charges imposed...

Business

PLDT confronts AT&T in HK

March 21, 2003 - 12:00am

Telecommunications giant Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT) wants US carrier AT&T to have the order of the US Federal Communications Commission international bureau reversed PLDT, and lifted, with...

Business

America at the forefront of a lesser war

By Josefina T. Lichauco | March 20, 2003 - 12:00am

( Last of three parts ) His name is Donald Abelson, chief, International Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission, who wrote out an "Order" dated March 10, 2003 that shocks us not because of its...

Business

NTC to telcos: Reject calls from US carriers

March 14, 2003 - 12:00am

The National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) branded yesterday the order issued by the international bureau of the US Federal Communications Commission ...

Business

US gov’t bullying small RP telcos

By GOTCHA | By Jarius Bondoc | March 14, 2003 - 12:00am

PLDT, Smart, Globe, Digitel or Bayantel may be big by RP standards. But they’re just as small as dozens of state-wide telephone companies in the US, with a few million dollars capital each. Only two US telcos...

Opinion

RP telcos gird for tough legal fight over call rates

March 13, 2003 - 12:00am

Philippine telecommunications carriers, through their local and foreign-based lawyers, are preparing for a tough legal battle ahead as they prepare to question the legality of the decision rendered by the international...

Business