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PLDT joins industry group

April 16, 2003 - 12:00am

A new organization will soon emerge as the strongest and largest aggrupation in the telecommunications industry. Sometime end of this month, the Philippine Chamber of Telecommunications (PCT) will be launched and...

Business

Telecom firms sever ties with PETEF

January 18, 2003 - 12:00am

Due to irreconcilable differences, the country’s leading telecommunications companies have severed ties with the country’s leading industry association, a move that is expected to result in a demise of...

Business

Globe Telecom bucks proposed 10% add'l tax on cellphone firms

By by Marigold Yao-Endriga | April 26, 2000 - 12:00am

The Ayala-controlled Globe Telecom warned yesterday that plans by Congress to impose an additional 10-percent tax on the country's five cellular phone companies will be "disastrous" to the industry. Gerardo...

Business

Group bucks proposed 10% tax on cellphone firms

By by Marigold Yao-Endriga | April 14, 2000 - 12:00am

The Philippine Electronic and Telecommunications Federation (Petef) has branded as "unconstitutional" a move by Congress to impose a 10 percent tax on cellular phone operators to give the government at least...

Business