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"Smart and other mobile phone service industry players can make it very difficult for ISM to survive in this business. Look at how they made it hard for Digitel to interconnect at the beginning," an industry official said.


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Smart shuns legal action vs sale of ETPI shares to ISM

October 18, 2005 - 12:00am

Smart Communications will no longer pursue a legal action to stop publicly listed ISM Communications Corp.’s recent acquisition of a 17.7-percent stake in Eastern Telecommunications Phils. Inc. (ETPI), but the...

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