by Ekrem Duman | Aug 26, 2026 | Philippines Company Stories, Telecoms & Media
⚡ TL;DRPhilippine internet has been expensive and slow relative to regional peers for two decades, and the reasons are structural rather than a failure of any single company. Connecting thousands of islands requires submarine cable; building anything requires...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 26, 2026 | Philippines Company Stories, Telecoms & Media
⚡ TL;DRABS-CBN was the Philippines’ dominant broadcaster, with the largest audience, the biggest production operation and a media business built over decades. In 2020 its congressional franchise — the legislative authority required to operate...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 26, 2026 | Philippines Company Stories, Telecoms & Media
⚡ TL;DRConverge built a national fibre broadband business from a regional cable operation, taking substantial market share from incumbents by offering faster home internet at lower prices with no legacy copper network to maintain. It is a focused challenger in a...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 26, 2026 | Philippines Company Stories, Telecoms & Media
⚡ TL;DRGlobe Telecom entered as a challenger to the fixed-line incumbent, built one of the Philippines’ two national mobile networks, and then created something more valuable than the network itself: a mobile wallet used by tens of millions of Filipinos....
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 26, 2026 | Philippines Company Stories, Telecoms & Media
⚡ TL;DRPLDT was founded in 1928 as the Philippines’ fixed-line monopoly, survived deregulation, built one of the country’s two dominant mobile networks, rode an extraordinary text messaging boom, and has since spent enormous sums on fibre, towers and...
