It has fewer phones than BayanTel, so Digitel is not meeting much difficulty interconnecting with PLDT.
Still, it says PLDT had signed an agreement early this year to provide adequate interconnection equipment.
Although it has the go-ahead from government, PLDT scrapped a plan to begin metering in April.
The Manila-based carrier is embroiled in legal action for Pldt.com's wacky architects to cease and desist.
The Philippines' dominant phone company, PLDT, could not supply more phones despite repeated requests in the past ten years.
Cable access could be a welcome consumer alternative if Philippine Long Distance Telephone (PLDT) carries out its metering plan.
Gokongwei says international banks charge JG Summit lower interest rates than PLDT, which has global depository receipts traded in New York.
Manila wants up to 6 million new phones by 1998 -- three times the existing lines owned mostly by erstwhile monopoly PLDT.
The reason: too many new telephones are trying to access PLDT's network.
Second, every failed attempt to dial a PLDT number clogs our system.
One complicating factor for First Pacific as a bidder for PAL is that Pangilinan is chairman of PLDT, the largest telecoms operator in the Philippines.
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That's a bit like poor old Philippines Long Distance Telephone, who gets hosed every time someone logs onto Pldt.com, which turns out to be Notquitepldt.com.
Even PLDT, which already operates a cable-TV system and an Internet service provider, is planning to offer cable Net access, "maybe before the end of 1999, " says Samson.
"A usage-based tariff will still be an option, and may be revived in the first or second quarter in 2000, " says Antonio Samson, PLDT executive vice president for corporate services.
"From the beginning, we have been talking with PLDT, from the top management down to the technical people, to make sure we don't run into problems, " says Globe president Jun Berba.
An indication of their influence is the key roles they played in effecting a major management revamp of two of the country's largest corporations: Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT) and Philippine Airlines (PAL).
The PLDT transaction - dubbed the corporate deal of the century in the Philippines - involved the buyout of the phone giant by Manuel Pangilinan, executive chairman of First Pacific, the Hong Kong arm of Indonesia's Salim Group.
Cojuangco initially put up a poison pill making it expensive for anyone to attempt a takeover, but according to one source, Jimenez convinced Pangilinan to up the ante for PLDT and persuaded Cojuangco that he was getting a good price for the family's shares.
The Philippine cellphone market has been growing at an exceptional rate, riding on the crest of the popularity of SMS (short messaging system), in which subscribers send text messages to each other, and on the poor service of the largest landline and longtime telephone monopoly PLDT, which operates Globe's closest cellular rival, Smart.
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