Digitel has installed 300, 000 lines in Luzon island (except Metro Manila, which is outside its franchise area) and plans 800, 000 more by 2000.
The Lopezes control and run Meralco, the electricity distribution monopoly on Luzon island (other interests: the ABS-CBN broadcasting network, the country's largest, as well as toll expressways and water services).
Owned by the Lopez family, it has a big advantage: sister company Manila Electric Co. has a network of power poles across Metro Manila and many parts of Luzon island.
The senator has filed a bill to set up appeals courts in key cities outside Manila: Baguio and Naga in Luzon island, Iloilo and Cebu in the Visayas, and Cagayan de Oro and Davao in Mindanao.
He estimated up to 300, 000 people have been displaced on the island of Luzon alone.
Manila, on the island of Luzon, and the nearby province of Rizal bore the brunt of the storm.
Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Parma remains slow-moving over the Philippine island of Luzon.
"We're really talking about maybe hundreds of thousands of people, " with about 280, 000 to 300, 000 displaced in the island of Luzon alone, he said.
Pinatubo, a volcano on the Philippine island of Luzon, began to rumble with a series of the powerful steam explosions that typically precede an eruption.
After five years, Hapinoy says it has helped thousands of sari-sari stores and has extended its reach to 14 provinces in the main island of Luzon.
The western coastal road is mostly paved, and comfortable air-conditioned buses now come straight to Sablayan from Manila via car ferries that chug from the Philippines' main island, Luzon, to Abra de Ilog.
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