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                    [Title] => Push To Talk revisited
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                    [Title] => Next Mobile to benefit greatly from merger of US telcos Sprint, Nextel
                    [Summary] => Philippine wireless mobile operator Next Mobile (formerly Nextel Communications Philippines Inc.) expects to benefit greatly, both in terms of increased subscriber base and a wider-reaching technology, from the recent merger of  American telecommunications companies Sprint and Nextel. 


"The merger between Sprint and Nextel is the best thing that happens to Next Mobile and its customers using its branded IMX mobile phones," Next Mobile Inc. (NMI) president and CEO Mel Velarde said. 


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                    [Title] => Wanna bet on Sextel?
                    [Summary] => A Sprint-Nextel merger was months ago unthinkable to many. They’re incompatible in technologies (the former is CDMA while the other is IDEN) and their networks overlap in almost all US cities. So where’s the value add?  


Nextel’s strength is its ownership of enterprise customers while Sprint’s lies on its wholesale communications packages, strong consumer appeal and strong landline network.


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                    [Title] => Laudable, but not enough
                    [Summary] => We just got word that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has just approved the application of Transpacific Broadcast Group International Inc. (TBGI)  for the registration and sale of 76.6 million common shares for its initial public offering.


The approval is however subject to the company’s submission of an amended articles of incorporation to reflect a change in its corporate name and an amendment of its primary purpose by deleting the word ‘broadcast’ from it.


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                    [Title] => NTC dismisses charges vs Nextel
                    [Summary] => The National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) has finally settled the dispute regarding the ownership structure of Nextel Communications Phils. Inc.(now known as Next Mobile, Inc.) after it ruled that the mobile phone company has fully complied with the constitutional limitations on foreign ownership.


This as the NTC dismissed the charges filed by former Nextel chief executive officer Antonio Urera questioning the company’s shareholding structure. 


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                    [Title] => I hurt powerful business interests – Climaco
                    [Summary] => Senior Presidential Consultant for Strategic Projects Gloria Tan Climaco said yesterday her alleged "tryst" with Fraport officials this week to settle the Piatco issue is a lie.


"SARS or not, I never bought a ticket in the first place. I am now a private citizen but I keep getting brickbats because I worked against contracts that are disadvantageous to the nation, hurting powerful economic interests in the process," she said.


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                    [Title] => Next Mobile partners with Nextel Philippines
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The Velarde group, the company behind Next Mobile, has partnered with Maxwealth Consultant Ltd. to form the new consortium.  With Maxwealth, Next Mobile boasts of a team of highly-skilled techno entrepreneurs with vast experience and expertise in the wireless communications industry.


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"The merger between Sprint and Nextel is the best thing that happens to Next Mobile and its customers using its branded IMX mobile phones," Next Mobile Inc. (NMI) president and CEO Mel Velarde said. 


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This as the NTC dismissed the charges filed by former Nextel chief executive officer Antonio Urera questioning the company’s shareholding structure. 


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"SARS or not, I never bought a ticket in the first place. I am now a private citizen but I keep getting brickbats because I worked against contracts that are disadvantageous to the nation, hurting powerful economic interests in the process," she said.


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