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Without the preferential treatment, Makati City Rep. Luis Campos Jr. said the third player would face numerous hurdles, including potential delays in securing licenses and regulatory approvals to form the new telecommunications company.

Globe is looking at divesting all or part of its tower assets to independent tower companies as part of its network expansion and optimization plan.

The Posible.NET device offers approximately 300 digital services including utility bills payment, select government fees, money services, micro-insurance, mobile loading, online gaming credits, and ticketing.

Notable increases in LTE data traffic on Smart?s networks have been recorded in Cebu province, where it increased by as much as 219%, and in Davao del Sur, where it grew by 75% between December 2016 and December 2017.

BPO companies remained attracted to the Philippines as their investment destination with its young and competitive talents in the industry.

Apart from the installation of new cell sites in a number of its retail stations, Shell also stands to become the first petrol station to offer the scan-to-pay facility of Globe's GCash.

Visa partnered with UnionBank to launch on Monday, Jan. 22, its simplified process of corporate cross-border bank-to-bank (B2B) transactions for small medium businesses and corporations in the Philippines.

Sen. Sherwin Gatchalian has filed Senate Bill No. 1643, also known as "Network Freedom Act", a measure which prohibits mobile telecommunications companies from locking their mobile devices, whether sold as a unit or under a service contract, to their respective networks.

The QR option is an upgrade of PayMaya's cashless system which has been available since last December 2017 in all branches of The SM Store nationwide.

A ranking BSP official has dubbed as positive the decision of BDO to pay its account holders who have reported to have been victimized by ATM skimming even as investigations are on-going.