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Monday, July 06, 2009 |
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EDITORIAL
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Making cell phone
companies behave
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The cell phone companies have
been a pampered lot. They are some of the most profitable business
operations. Yes, they put in big bucks when they started. But they
recovered their investments very quickly.
We Filipinos send one billion
text messages a day. We are known to be the texting capital of the
world. There are very much more cell phones than landlines here. The
mobile phone companies have 70 million subscribers—some of these
are among the poorest Filipinos. They need to have cell phones to
survive.
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O T H E R C O L U M N S A
N D F E A T U R E S
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BIG DEAL
By Dan Mariano
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DENR reform, can
it be done?
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The country’s natural resources are there for
anyone who can harness them for the nation’s good. However, the
process has to be closely regulated—otherwise nothing would remain
of nature’s bounty very soon.
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OPEN
NOTEBOOK
RANDOM JOTTINGS
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A joyous, yet
poignant, Fourth of July
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THE annual Fourth of July reception hosted at the
United States Embassy is always a joyous and merry affair, bringing
together a select gathering of this town’s good and the great ...
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