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Envoy urges RP to allow foreign ownership of land

By Ma. Elisa Osorio  | December 28, 2007 - 12:00am

Business

Norway firm may put up telecom unit in RP

By Ma. Elisa Osorio  | December 13, 2007 - 12:00am

Business

Digitel works on linkage with other telecom firms

November 2, 2001 - 12:00am

Gokongwei-owned Digital Telecommunications Phils. Inc. is now working on its interconnection agreement with all the other carrier so that Digitel mobile phone subscribers can connect to landline and cellular subscribers...

Business

Globe, Smart say there is no network congestion

By by Marigold Yao-Endriga | October 5, 2000 - 12:00am

In a last ditch effort to make the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) decide favorably on the status of their networks, rival firms Globe Telecom and Smart Communications Inc. have submitted additional...

Business

Cellphone firms to face new technology

By by Marigold Yao-Endriga | June 3, 2000 - 12:00am

Local cellular phone companies may take four to five years before being able to adopt the third generation (3G) mobile technology which foreign operators are already testing. Greg Marshall, Lucent Technologies...

Business

Smart, Globe seek additional frequencies

By by Marigold Yao-Endriga | March 29, 2000 - 12:00am

Competing cellular phone operators Globe Telecom and Smart Communications Inc. are set to apply for additional cellular frequencies to accommodate their fast growing number of mobile phone subscribers. Emmanuel...

Business

NTC may impose penalties on telecom firms for failure to meet rollouttargets

By by Marigold Yao-Endriga | February 3, 2000 - 12:00am

The National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) bared plans yesterday of imposing monetary and administrative penalties against local exchange carriers (LECs) which failed to fulfill their telephone roll-out...

Business