Duterte urges telcos to ‘do a better job’ as opening of classes looms

Sep 29, 2020 | Top Stories

President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday night called out telecommunication companies anew for providing poor services to Filipinos. He said Filipinos were not getting their money’s worth from paying telco service fees, and this has become an “eternal...

PLDT, Globe bosses vow addt’l lines for gov’t ‘One Hospital Command’

Aug 24, 2020 | Top Stories

PLDT Chairman Manny Pangilinan and Globe Telecom Director Fernando Zobel de Ayala pledged to supply the government’s One Hospital Command Center (OHCC) with more phone lines. Palace spokesman Harry Roque put the two telco bosses on the spot after Health...

PLDT’s Twitter account hacked

May 28, 2020 | Nation

“Hacktivist” group, short for activist hackers, Anonymous, claims it has hacked the official Twitter account of Philippine telecommunications company, PLDT. Below is the message of the hackers taking over the Twitter account.   As the pandemic arises,...

3rd telco, now known as ‘Dito Telecommunity,’ finally gets license to operate

Jul 9, 2019 | Top Stories

President Rodrigo Duterte awards the Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity to the Mindanao Islamic Telephone Company Inc. (Mislatel), represented by its chairman, Dennis Uy, at Malacañan Palace on Monday, July 8. National Telecommunications Commission (NTC)...