Tag: pldt

Has PLDT been depriving its customers of available capacity all this time?

March 16, 2020March 16, 2020 benign0 7 Comments

One of the good things about the COVID-19 pandemic is that it reveals what business organisations are actually capable of given a call to step up the quality and performance of their products and services. According to a Rappler “report”, it turns out top national telco Philippine Long Distance Telephone (PLDT) company has “more than…

Business, Tech Talk

Social Media and Big Telco emerge as Filipino heroes

August 9, 2012August 9, 2012 benign0 3 Comments

In another one of its infomercial articles that it would like to pass off to the average sucker as a news “report”, ABS-CBN trumpeted another one of those dubious “achievements” Filipinos owe mainly to their enormous population — our undisputed place in the global scheme of things as the “social media capital of the world”….

Development, Environment, Money Talks, Politics

Metro Manila flood control master planning in chronic catch up mode over the last two decades!

August 8, 2012 benign0 12 Comments

Perhaps in this instance rather than refer to Philippine President Benigno Simeon ‘BS’ Aquino III by his catchy first two initials, he should instead be referred to as the ‘BT’ President — as in bad timing. Just two weeks before The Disaster that Could not be Named struck Manila and turned it into a real-life…

Development, Economy, Environment, Government