National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) on Wednesday finally gave their green light of acquisition of country’s biggest Telco. The Manny Pangilinan group PLDT now owns more than 50% share of the Digitel the operator of Sun Cellular.
Philippine Long Distance Telephone company now becomes the biggest telco in the country. They own the following brands – Smart, Red Mobile, and Talk N’ Text. Manny Pangilinan group is now up against the Ayala-led telco Globe Telecom which own the brand Globe & Touch Mobile.
Digitel prior to the acquisition of PLDT was under JG Summit Group, the same holding company who owns Cebu Pacific Air. Manny Pangilinan group however owns TV5 &PLDT Group; in the news the other day MVP offers upgrade of the MRT 3.
