- Philstar.com
- The Philippine Star
- Pilipino Star Ngayon
- The Freeman
- Pang-Masa
- Banat
- Interaksyon
- Coupons
SUPPORT PHILSTAR
About Us |
Contact Us |
Advertise |
Privacy Policy |
Member Agreement |
Copyright Notice
Copyright © 2026. Philstar Global Corp. All Rights Reserved
X
+ Follow FOLLOWING PHILIPPINE LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE CO Tag
Array
(
[results] => Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[ArticleID] => 193327
[Title] => Another victim
[Summary] => The landline telephone business in the Philippines continues to buckle down under the extreme pressure brought about by competing technologies and declining revenues from international calls.
Following Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co.'s painful decision to let go of some of its regional telephone operators last Dec. 31 because less and less people are making operator-assisted calls, this time around, it is Ayala-owned Isla Communications which is retrenching over 70 employees starting late next month.
[DatePublished] => 2003-01-29 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 134315
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] =>
[AuthorName] =>
[SectionName] => Business
[SectionUrl] => business
[URL] =>
)
)
)
FOLLOWING PHILIPPINE LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE CO
Array
(
[results] => Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[ArticleID] => 193327
[Title] => Another victim
[Summary] => The landline telephone business in the Philippines continues to buckle down under the extreme pressure brought about by competing technologies and declining revenues from international calls.
Following Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co.'s painful decision to let go of some of its regional telephone operators last Dec. 31 because less and less people are making operator-assisted calls, this time around, it is Ayala-owned Isla Communications which is retrenching over 70 employees starting late next month.
[DatePublished] => 2003-01-29 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 134315
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] =>
[AuthorName] =>
[SectionName] => Business
[SectionUrl] => business
[URL] =>
)
)
)
abtest
January 29, 2003 - 12:00am
Recommended
A small group of men gathered at a Starbucks café yesterday and before they could get on with the business of the day, every other guy could not help but ask for peoples’ opinion on the Iglesia Ni Cristo lightning rally on EDSA.
9 hours ago
Business groups are urging the government to provide support and pursue policies that promote growth of businesses, particularly micro, small and medium enterprises, amid the approval of the P85 daily minimum wage hike for workers in Metro Manila.
1 day ago
Imagine this: a medium?sized business owner has just completed the construction of a new shop and is ready to open, except for one critical piece: power. Now, instead of filing the usual application with the local distribution utility, the owner enters a very different process.
1 day ago
The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas pilot test for a wholesale central bank digital currency (CBDC) showed that digital tokens can help banks settle large-value transactions beyond normal business hours, but the central bank still needs to address legal, regulatory, cybersecurity and scalability issues before any full rollout.
1 day ago
LJ Reyes and her husband Philip Evangelista have successfully expanded their cookie selling business with a permanent store.
1 day ago
Lotto Jul 2, 2026
EZ2/LVM - 14 18
SUERTRES - 6 9 3
6D Lotto - 7 0 6 8 9 5
6/42 Lotto - 29 9 31 33 19 24
P57,645,619.00
6/49 Super Lotto - 23 22 38 5 48 44
P51,969,005.00
Forex
February 12, 2018
- 12:00 am
- 12:00 am
1$ : P51.66








