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                    [Title] => Snippets from our wireless world I
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                    [Title] => Islacom sees rebound by next year
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Islacom, a subsidiary of Globe Telecom, also expects its debts to be trimmed down to a very manageable level of only P1 billion by the first half of next year. "At the height of it all in end of 1998 to the beginning of 1999, Islacom’s debts reached $600 million," company chief operating officer Gil Genio said.


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Islacom is a local provider of GSM cellular, fixed line, and international long distance services whose major shareholder is Deutsche Telecom AG (DT).


Globe officials said they expect the financial close of the Globe-Islacom combination to happen sometime in June this year.


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Globe Telecom earlier merged with Islacom via an all-stock transaction. The transaction involves an exchange of a package of new Globe common and preferred shares to Islacom’s shareholders. The transaction values the equity of both companies at a combined $2.3 billion.


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This view was expressed separately by Finance Secretary Jose T. Pardo, Economic
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Islacom is a local provider of GSM cellular, fixed line, and international long distance services whose major shareholder is Deutsche Telecom AG (DT).


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