PHILIPPINE telecom giants PLDT and Globe Telecom have reached an agreement with the country’s most diversified conglomerate San Miguel Corp. to buy out the latter’s telecommunications assets in a deal worth P69.1 billion, the three companies said in separate announcements on Monday.

The surprise development came after SMC and Australia’s Telstra Corp. ended talks on joint investment in a new mobile network in the Philippines.

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