China Telecom Corp. isn’t the only foreign company interested in becoming the Philippines’ third telco player, a senior government official said.

Eliseo Rio, Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) officer-in-charge, told reporters on Wednesday that five firms from Japan, Korea, China, Australia and the United States were looking at investing in the country.

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