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                    [Title] => EasyCall gets license for data communications
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                    [Title] => EasyCall spins off Internet, call center operations
                    [Summary] => Easycall Communications Philippines Inc. (ECPI) will spin off the operating assets of its Internet and call center businesses into a new wholly-owned subsidiary, the company told the Philippine Stock Exchange.


ECPI said the move is in line with efforts to streamline its operations following the closure of its paging business.


It said the assets to be transferred to the new company will form part of its capital contribution into the said subsidiary.


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                    [Title] => Manpower supply services
                    [Summary] => Duty Free Phils. Services Inc. wants to know  if its employees are indeed exempt from VAT under Section 109(O) of the National Internal Revenue Code of 1997.


On June 30, 1998, the Philippine Tourism Authority (Duty Free Phils. Division) entered into a contract for professional services with Employment Consultants of the Phils., Inc. The salient terms and conditions of the ECPI-PTA (DFP) contract were:


• ECPI will provide PTA(DFP) with qualified personnel to staff the DFP stores and other facilities;


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                    [Title] => NTC orders probe on closure of Easycall’s paging service
                    [Summary] => The National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) has ordered an investigation into the impending closure of the last remaining paging sites of Easycall Communications Phils. Inc. (ECPI) following a complaint from the company’s Cebu-based paging sub-contractor.


Wilson Yang, general manager of Cebcom Management Corp., has asked the NTC to look into ECPI’s decision to close its paging operations since this was made arbitrarily and unilaterally, without prior notice or any consultation with the regulatory agencies, the company’s business partners and its subscribers.

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                    [Title] => Easycall to close paging operations in Nov
                    [Summary] => After nearly 10 years of paging operations, Easycall Communications Philippines Inc. (ECPI) will finally bid goodbye to a nationwide service it has revolutionized and dominated for most of the last decade.


ECPI corporate information officer Leon Dy told the Philippine Stock Exchange that the company will be closing down its remaining paging operations in Metro Manila and Cebu by the end of next month.


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                    [Title] => Easycall to undertake equity restructuring
                    [Summary] => Paging company-turned call center operator Easycall Communications Phils. Inc. (ECPI) will undertake an equity restructuring scheme to wipe out a P330-million deficit, thus cleaning its balance sheet to pursue its expansion plans.


Leon Dy, ECPI corporate information officer, told the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) that the equity restructuring will involve the offsetting of the company’s accumulated deficit against and up to the limit of the capital surplus or additional paid-in capital (APIC) as of the fiscal year ending June 30, 2002.


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                    [Title] => EasyCall, US firm tie up for call center venture
                    [Summary] => Easycall Communications Phils. Inc. (ECPI) will form a 50-50 joint venture with the US-based Centralized Marketing Co. for a call center business that would focus on high-margin accounts from clients abroad.


The former paging operator said its board approved last week the partnership with CMC or its wholly-owned Philippine holding company in line with its new corporate focus on the contact center business geared toward the foreign market.


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                    [Title] => Easycall eyes US market for call center services
                    [Summary] => Easycall Communication Philippines Inc. (ECPI), once the country’s most dominant paging system operator, will be tapping the huge US market for call center operations as the company slowly makes a shift toward information technology (IT)-enabled services.


ECPI president Soc Niro told the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) that they are in discussions for a possible joint venture with some US-based contact center companies. Niro said  an agreement is expected soon.


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                    [Title] => SEC okays EasyCall’s P100-M capital hike
                    [Summary] => The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has approved the P100-million capital increase of EasyCall Communication Philippines Inc. (ECPI) to pave the way for the entry of a new strategic investor, the Transnational Diversified Group of the Delgado family.


Based on SEC documents, more than half or P52 million of the total increase has been subscribed to and fully paid-up by Global e-Business Solutions Inc., the information technology subsidiary of TDG.


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ECPI said the move is in line with efforts to streamline its operations following the closure of its paging business.


It said the assets to be transferred to the new company will form part of its capital contribution into the said subsidiary.


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Wilson Yang, general manager of Cebcom Management Corp., has asked the NTC to look into ECPI’s decision to close its paging operations since this was made arbitrarily and unilaterally, without prior notice or any consultation with the regulatory agencies, the company’s business partners and its subscribers.

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ECPI corporate information officer Leon Dy told the Philippine Stock Exchange that the company will be closing down its remaining paging operations in Metro Manila and Cebu by the end of next month.


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Leon Dy, ECPI corporate information officer, told the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) that the equity restructuring will involve the offsetting of the company’s accumulated deficit against and up to the limit of the capital surplus or additional paid-in capital (APIC) as of the fiscal year ending June 30, 2002.


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The former paging operator said its board approved last week the partnership with CMC or its wholly-owned Philippine holding company in line with its new corporate focus on the contact center business geared toward the foreign market.


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                    [Summary] => Easycall Communication Philippines Inc. (ECPI), once the country’s most dominant paging system operator, will be tapping the huge US market for call center operations as the company slowly makes a shift toward information technology (IT)-enabled services.


ECPI president Soc Niro told the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) that they are in discussions for a possible joint venture with some US-based contact center companies. Niro said  an agreement is expected soon.


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Based on SEC documents, more than half or P52 million of the total increase has been subscribed to and fully paid-up by Global e-Business Solutions Inc., the information technology subsidiary of TDG.


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