Tag: Mislatel

Mislatel, renamed Dito, awarded certificate to operate by President Duterte; vows 55 Mbps internet speed

  (Eagle News) — Mindanao Islamic Telephone Co. (Mislatel) consortium, the new player in the Philippine telecommunications industry, could soon operate in the country after it formally received its Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity (CPCN) from President Rodrigo Duterte. Duterte awarded on Monday, July 8, the certificate to Mislatel which vowed to improve the prevailing internet speed from 4.5 Mbps to 55 Mbps. The consortium will be renamed Dito Telecommunity Corporation, which is expected […]

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Rio denies Drilon’s claim Mislatel franchise “void ipso facto”

(Eagle News)—Department of Information and Communications Technology Acting Secretary Eliseo Rio on Saturday, Jan. 26, denied Senator Franklin Drilon’s claim the franchise of Mindanao Islamic Telephone Co. was void “ipso facto.” Mislatel is part of the consortium that was named the third telco player in the country. In a hearing by the Senate public services committee on Friday, Jan. 25, Drilon said that the franchise of Mislatel was “ipso facto” revoked because it failed to operate […]

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Trillanes wants Dennis Uy invited to Senate panel telco hearing

(Eagle News) — Senator Antonio Trillanes IV wants Dennis Uy to be invited to the Senate panel hearing on Mislatel, the country’s third major telecommunications player. According to Trillanes, this is because he wants to ask Uy directly about how Mislatel, which is composed of Uy’s Udenna Corp. and its subsidiary Chelsea Logistics Holdings Corp, and China Telecom and Mindanao Islamic Telephone Co., bagged the contract on Nov. 19. “The public would like to know […]

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NTC confirms MISLATEL Group as country’s 3rd major telco player

(Eagle News) — The Philippine government has confirmed that the telecommunications consortium of Chinese state-owned China Telecommunications Corporation and of Udenna Corporation owned by a Davao-based businessman is the third major player in the country’s telecommunications industry. The National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) made the announcement on Monday, Nov. 19, after en banc deliberations. The NTC en banc “confirms the status of NEW MAJOR PLAYER in favor of the Mindanao Islamic Telephone Company, Inc., with Udenna […]

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NTC selection panel junks Sear, PT&T appeals for third telco bid

(Eagle News) — The National Telecommunications Commission’s selection committee has junked the appeal filed by  Sear Telecomunications Consortium for the panel to declare Mislatel Consortium — declared the country’s third provisional telco player—guilty of misrepresentation of facts and for concealing material evidence. The panel also junked the appeal of the Philippine Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (PT&T)  after they were disqualified from bidding to be the country’s third telco player. Sear had argued the partnership of Mindanao Islamic […]

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Palace: Duterte had no hand in selection of provisional third major telco player

(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte had no hand in the selection of the provisional third telco player in the country. Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo emphasized this following reports noting that Dennis Uy of Udena Corp. and Chelsea Logistics had donated to Duterte’s presidential campaign in 2016. Udena Corp., Chelsea Logistics and China Telecom comprise Mislatel, which was named the provisional third telco player that would compete against PLDT Inc. and Globe Telecom. According to Panelo, […]

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Consortium of China’s state-owned telecom and Davao-based firm named PHL provisional 3rd telco player

  (Eagle News) — A telecommunications consortium of Chinese state-owned China Telecommunications Corporation and of Udenna Corporation owned by a Davao-based businessman becomes the “provisional” third major player in the country’s telecommunications industry. This was according to a selection panel of the National Telecommunications Commission that screened bidders aspiring to become the third major telecommunications player in the country that would ultimately break the current duopoly in the industry. Mislatel Consortium involving businessman Dennis Uy […]

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