That is also true of Globe, which is laying underground cables in the Makati business district.
"We will provide 300, 000 fixed-line phones in Makati and other areas of the country by 1998, " says Berba.
Regardless of the means, head towards the towers of Makati , one of the more central areas that make up Metro Manila.
Joel Sulse, who celebrated Mass at the Santuario de San Antonio parish in an upscale residential enclave in Manila's Makati business district.
A. was recently elected chairman of the prominent Makati Business Club.
The Philippine vice president has temporarily shifted residence from her luxury high-rise apartment back to the sprawling house in Makati's tony Forbes Park neighborhood where she grew up.
"They want to know the usage pattern -- how many calls are going from Quezon City to, say, Makati -- of a brand-new group of customers, " says Duffy.
"There is no better time to be in the Philippines than now, " says Robbie Antonio, managing director of Century Properties, a Manila real estate firm whose array of luxury construction projects includes Trump Tower, Makati City.
Item one for the prosecution: a survey conducted by the influential Makati Business Club that found the highest court had fallen in esteem from first place in 1986 to No. 18, below even the national telephone service.
The Ayala group, for example, is still awaiting a contract for a railway connecting their property in the Makati business district to an area south where they have more than 4, 000 hectares of residential, commercial and industrial development.
And the naming of five prominent Makati businessmen, including management consultant Washington SyCip, former central bank governor Gabriel Singson and real estate tycoon Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, as senior economic advisers should end clashes with the business establishment.
应用推荐