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                    [Title] => Technology advancement downgrades IDD service
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                    [Title] => Ayala, Globe sign buyback deal
                    [Summary] => Ayala Corp. and its telecommunications unit Globe Telecom have signed an agreement that would allow them to buy back the offered shares of Germany’s DeTeAsia Holdings GmbH in Globe, hence increasing their shareholdings in the Philippines’ second largest telecoms company.


In separate disclosures filed with the Philippine Stock Exchange, AC and Globe said they have signed a definitive agreement covering the purchase from DeTeAsia of 10.04 million shares and 12 million Globe shares, respectively, at P680 per share.


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                    [Title] => Globe launches Innove Communications
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Last Oct. 1, all the products, services, assets, licenses, manpower and networks of GlobeQUEST and Globelines were fully migrated to Innove. The two brands will continue to be offered by Innove under license from Globe.


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                    [Title] => Another victim
                    [Summary] => The landline telephone business in the Philippines continues to buckle down under the extreme pressure brought about by competing technologies and declining revenues from international calls.


Following Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co.'s painful decision to let go of some of its regional telephone operators last Dec. 31 because less and less people are making operator-assisted calls, this time around, it is Ayala-owned Isla Communications which is retrenching over 70 employees starting late next month.


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                    [Title] => GMA signs Digitel franchise
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To be operated by Digitel Mobile Philippines Inc., which was spun off from Digitel, the newly signed franchise application would allow the telecommunication firm under RA 9180 to "construct, install, establish, operate and maintain telecommunications system throughout the country."


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                    [Title] => Digitel to launch mobile phone service before yearend
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Without the interconnection agreements in place, Digitel mobile customers will not be able to call those being serviced by other service providers like Smart and Globe and vice-versa. A separate agreement is needed for text messaging.


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                    [Title] => Globe seen meeting 2002 profit estimate
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The company announced it had posted third quarter net income of P1.3 billion, slightly ahead of its earlier projection of about one billion. It reported net income of 804.595 million in the third quarter of 2001. 


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                    [Title] => Globe Telecom sees P1-B net income for Q3
                    [Summary] => Ayala-owned Globe Telecom expects to post a P1-billion net income during the third quarter of this year, despite an asset write-off of around P2.2 billion resulting from the shutting down of part of its subsidiary Isla Communications‚ network.


Company officials yesterday announced that the wireless networks of Globe Telecom and Islacom have been operationally integrated, a move that is projected to save the former around P1.5 billion in capital expenditures and P600 million every year in cash operating expenses.


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