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                    [Title] => Solid Group allots P400 million for real estate development projects
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Solid Group Inc. (SGI), a listed holding firm owned by the Lim family, is allotting P400 million this year for its real estate development projects and the modernization of its broadband infrastructure.
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                    [AuthorName] => Zinnia B. Dela Peña
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                    [Title] => PLDT to sell its minority stake in Central CATV
                    [Summary] => 



Telecommunications giant Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT) is keen on selling its minority stake in Central CATV Inc., the leading cable television company in the country.  


PLDT chairman Manuel Pangilinan told The STAR that they are just waiting for the right offer to come along.


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                    [Title] => Sky Cable makes major expansion move
                    [Summary] => Sky Cable, the country’s biggest cable television brand, is set to embark anytime now on its most ambitious undertaking so far, with the introduction of digital addressable set-top boxes among its subscribers, beginning with those in the high-end residential and commercial areas of Pasig, The STAR learned.


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                    [Title] => Sky, Home Cable to set up digital boxes by Oct
                    [Summary] => Central CATV, the common operator of dominant cable firms of Sky Cable and Home Cable, will introduce digital addressable set-top boxes starting October this year among its cable television subscribers, a move being resorted to in order to put a stop to signal piracy.


Highly-placed company officials told The STAR that they are now in talks with the foreign suppliers of these boxes which would not only eliminate illegal cable TV connections but also allow the company to introduce new services such as video-on-demand and pay per view.


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                    [Title] => PLDT to offer direct-to-home satellite TV service next year
                    [Summary] => Telecommunications leader Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT) will start offering direct-to-home (DTH) satellite pay television services in local shores in partnership with US-based DTH giant Echostar Communications early to middle of next year, PLDT chairman Manuel Pangilinan told The STAR. 


He said in a recent interview that PLDT and Echostar hope to finalize the terms of an $85-million joint venture agreement, including the numbers, before the end of this year. 


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                    [Title] => Destiny warns cable TV set-top boxes not foolproof
                    [Summary] => Cable service provider Global Destiny Cable (GDC) has warned that plans to impose the use of addressable set-top boxes among cable TV subscribers to curb signal piracy may not work since the technology is not "foolproof."


GDC president Philip Chien noted that incidences of signal piracy still persist in countries such as China and Australia, where cable service companies encrypt their signals to subscribers for decryption by set-top box.


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                    [Title] => Lopez Group to spend billions for cable TV boxes
                    [Summary] => The Lopez group will be investing billions of pesos to install addressable set-up boxes for free in the homes of all cable television subscribers of Sky Cable and Home Cable, a move that is expected to put to a halt to cable TV signal piracy and improve income streams through the introduction of more pay per view channels and an expected increase in the number of paying subscribers.


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                    [Title] => Eliminating signal piracy seen to double cable TV subscribers
                    [Summary] => The elimination of cable television (CATV) signal piracy could easily double the number of subscribers in the country, a group of cable operators said.


Officials of the Philippine Cable Television Association (PCTA) estimated that aside from the 1.5 million reported cable TV subscribers in the country, there are at least 500,000 more that are illegally connected. "If this 500,000 illegal subscribers become paying subscribers, then we could easily bring up our subscriber base," PCTA president Toni Selda said. 


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                    [Title] => NTC sets meet over AXN, Star contract issues with Destiny
                    [Summary] => The National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) is meeting with officials of Destiny Cable, AXN, and Star Group to thresh out the issues involving AXN and Star’s continued refusal to renew their respective contracts with Destiny and possibly come up with a mutually acceptable settlement.


Destiny is the country’s third largest cable TV operator next only to Sky Cable and Home Cable. The former has lost a significant share of its market to its major competitors following the pullout of AXN and Star Group.


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                    [Title] => PLDT to transfer assets of Home Cable to Sky Cable
                    [Summary] => The PLDT group is expected to sign very soon a deed of assignment transferring the assets of Home Cable to Sky Cable as one of the final steps towards the consolidation of the country’s two leading cable television entities, The STAR learned. 


With the assignment of all its assets to Lopez-owned Sky Cable, Home Cable will in effect be a shell company, owning shares in Sky Cable which the latter will be issuing in exchange for the Home Cable assets. 


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                    [Title] => Solid Group allots P400 million for real estate development projects
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PLDT chairman Manuel Pangilinan told The STAR that they are just waiting for the right offer to come along.


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                    [Title] => Sky Cable makes major expansion move
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                    [Title] => Sky, Home Cable to set up digital boxes by Oct
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Highly-placed company officials told The STAR that they are now in talks with the foreign suppliers of these boxes which would not only eliminate illegal cable TV connections but also allow the company to introduce new services such as video-on-demand and pay per view.


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                    [Title] => PLDT to offer direct-to-home satellite TV service next year
                    [Summary] => Telecommunications leader Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT) will start offering direct-to-home (DTH) satellite pay television services in local shores in partnership with US-based DTH giant Echostar Communications early to middle of next year, PLDT chairman Manuel Pangilinan told The STAR. 


He said in a recent interview that PLDT and Echostar hope to finalize the terms of an $85-million joint venture agreement, including the numbers, before the end of this year. 


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                    [Title] => Destiny warns cable TV set-top boxes not foolproof
                    [Summary] => Cable service provider Global Destiny Cable (GDC) has warned that plans to impose the use of addressable set-top boxes among cable TV subscribers to curb signal piracy may not work since the technology is not "foolproof."


GDC president Philip Chien noted that incidences of signal piracy still persist in countries such as China and Australia, where cable service companies encrypt their signals to subscribers for decryption by set-top box.


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                    [Title] => Lopez Group to spend billions for cable TV boxes
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                    [Title] => Eliminating signal piracy seen to double cable TV subscribers
                    [Summary] => The elimination of cable television (CATV) signal piracy could easily double the number of subscribers in the country, a group of cable operators said.


Officials of the Philippine Cable Television Association (PCTA) estimated that aside from the 1.5 million reported cable TV subscribers in the country, there are at least 500,000 more that are illegally connected. "If this 500,000 illegal subscribers become paying subscribers, then we could easily bring up our subscriber base," PCTA president Toni Selda said. 


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                    [Title] => NTC sets meet over AXN, Star contract issues with Destiny
                    [Summary] => The National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) is meeting with officials of Destiny Cable, AXN, and Star Group to thresh out the issues involving AXN and Star’s continued refusal to renew their respective contracts with Destiny and possibly come up with a mutually acceptable settlement.


Destiny is the country’s third largest cable TV operator next only to Sky Cable and Home Cable. The former has lost a significant share of its market to its major competitors following the pullout of AXN and Star Group.


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                    [Title] => PLDT to transfer assets of Home Cable to Sky Cable
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With the assignment of all its assets to Lopez-owned Sky Cable, Home Cable will in effect be a shell company, owning shares in Sky Cable which the latter will be issuing in exchange for the Home Cable assets. 


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