Home Credit, which set up shop in the country in 2013 with P2 billion in investment, is buoyed by the receptive response of Filipinos who use its offerings to buy mostly electronic gadgets and home appliances.
Under the deal, PLDT will take care of the connectivity and managed services, while Intel will provide the hardware. All a customer needs to do is subscribe to the package via PLDT?s SME Nation, the company?s SME arm.
Call center operator Concentrix has inaugurated a state-of-the-art facility -- said to be ?better the Google? ? at Tera Tower in Bridgetowne complex at the corner of C-5 Road and Ortigas Avenue in Quezon City.
The Philippines is stepping up efforts in carving a sizeable niche of the estimated $18.4-billion European games industry market as the country?s industry players are set to participate at the GamesCom 2016 in Cologne, Germany next month.
Local telcos Globe Telecom and PLDT have signed an agreement with the government to support the creation of a new nationwide emergency hotline number, 911, to replace Patrol 117.
The launch event, held at the Shangri-la Hotel in The Fort, also served as an occasion for PLDT and Smart chairman Manny V. Pangilinan to admit that fierce rival Globe was once able to surpass Smart in 3G coverage.
The platform -- called Asean Solutions for Investments, Services and Trade (Asisst) -- will be "an internet-based facility for receiving, processing and responding to complaints submitted by Asean enterprises on operational problems related to the implementation of Asean agreements."
Both PLDT and Globe Telecom have asserted that the PCC did not have an IRR (implementing rules and regulations) at the time of the purchase and that they have already filed the sufficient notice required under the provisionary rules of PCC to make the deal ?deemed approved?.
