PLDT core profit to hit P35 B in 2007.
Byline: EMMIE V. ABADILLA The Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT) projects core profits of P34 to P35 billion for 2007, Chairman Manuel V. Pangilinan told reporters yesterday. For the first nine months, PLDT has reported a consolidated core net profit of P26.2 billion, up...

ZTE wins prestigious award in Germany for telecom services.
BERLIN, Germany --- ZTE Corp. of China bagged the prestigious InfoVision Award for providing the world state-of-the-art yet highly affordable telecommunication services, including Internet protocol television (IPTV) and high-definition video-on-demand. "We are very proud of this achievement," said ZTE Vice President Chen Jie on the award received...

PLDT pushes reorganization.
Byline: EMMIE V. ABADILLA The Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT) is reorganizing its corporate structure into segments to further strengthen its wireless, fixed, broadband, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) and media/content businesses. As Group President and CEO, Napoleon L. Nazareno is overseeing the reorganization. He...

Utility selling wireless unit; National Grid is refocusing.
Byline: Bob Kievra WESTBORO - National Grid Plc said yesterday it would sell its Boxboro-based wireless business for $290 million to a joint venture of M/C Venture Partners of Boston and the private investment arm of Wachovia Corp., the fourth-largest U.S. bank. National Grid Wireless,...

Cable to link Florence, Alaska.
Byline: Susan Palmer The Register-Guard Greater computer bandwith is headed to Florence but it may be awhile before locals have access to it. An Alaska telecommunications company has announced that it will run a fiber optic cable from the coastal town of Homer south to Oregon next...

Operation of WESM Visayas tied to power capacity additions.
Byline: MYRNA M. VELASCO The timing of the commercial operation of the Wholesale Electricity Spot Market (WESM) in the Visayas shall be anchored on capacity additions as proposed by power investors, a ranking energy official has noted. Energy Undersecretary Melinda L. Ocampo acknowledged that the...

BoI rejects PLDT bid for tax incentives.
Byline: Bernie Cahiles-Magkilat The Board of Investments has denied Philippine Long Distance Telecommunications Co. (PLDT) of income tax holiday incentives for its multi-billion-peso next-generation network (NGN) projects saying the nationwide franchise of the dominant telecoms carrier is already an incentive in itself. A member of...

Egypt and the new digital age: Egypt has entered the hi-tech age with enthusiasm and its influence in this global phenomenon is poised to increase. Maria Golia reports from Cairo.
WHEN EGYPT'S FIRST subway was under construction in the mid-1980s, the capital was torn to shreds. Between mountains of sand, muddy pits and widespread electricity, water and phone cuts and shortages, life in Cairo required superior patience and agility. To many citizens, the Mubarak administration's promise to upgrade Egypt's...

Telecom talk.
UNTIL RECENTLY, overcrowded Haiti and sparsely populated Guyana shared a reputation for spotty mobile phone service that was way too expensive for all but the richest segments of society. No longer. Digicel Group Ltd.--incorporated in Bermuda and headquartered in Jamaica--is finally bringing wireless to the masses in...

NTC officials cautioned on wiretapping controversy.
Senate Minority Leader Aquilino Q. Pimentel Jr. (PDP-Laban) yesterday cautioned officials of the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) against prematurely clearing telecommunications companies of allegations that they or some of their personnel had connived with the military in illegal wiretapping activities during the 2004 presidential election. Pimentel was...