Business I.T.

Under the measure, mobile phone service providers, distributors, and retailers are required to file a petition to the NTC every time they intend to implement any changes in the market price ceilings of basic mobile phone services.

DIAL LOVE. Globe Telecom executives Peter Bithos (right) and Chee Loo Fun discuss in a press briefing last week in Makati City the company’s new quick-service menu and the rollout of pre-paid offerings including ‘Immortal’ promo, which has no expiry dates for texts and calls.

American politicians are playing up a US anti-outsourcing bill because it offers them a good sound bite ahead of the November elections there, a member of Congress said Sunday.

ALL SET. Executives from Globe Telecom, Huawei, and Alcatel-Lucent hold a press briefing on Wednesday to formalize the start of the massive modernization program of the Ayala-led telco. Huawei will supply the network equipment, while Alcatel-Lucent will serve as project manager.

Globe maintained its dominance in the postpaid segment, closing 2011 with nearly 1.5 million postpaid subscribers, 36 percent above previous year’s 1.1 million.

The second site of the Manila hub of the Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) Banking Group in Libis, Quezon City is expected to employ more than 2,000 Filipinos.

Sen. Edgardo Angara, for his part, also called for the swift passage of the measure, although he admitted the version passed by the Senate is still a “work in progress”.

Less than week after its launch, the DTI’s online Philippine Business Registry System (PBRS) has been receiving positive feedbacks, Malacañang reported over the weekend.

Smart Communications announced that it has opened up SmartNet to other Android devices, although the company said there would still be a “Netphone” model that would banner the service.

Starting February 2012, Globe Telecom said its subscribers will no longer encounter bill shock when they surf the Internet using their mobile phone after the company introduced its Globe Postpaid PowerSurf.