Tonyboy took charge of Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. after Marcos went into exile.
Cable access could be a welcome consumer alternative if Philippine Long Distance Telephone (PLDT) carries out its metering plan.
Periquet also likes Philippine Long Distance Telephone, listed on the New York Stock Exchange as an American Depositary Receipt.
It initially expects to offer services for leisure airline tickets, hotel rooms, car hire and long distance telephone calls.
That's a bit like poor old Philippines Long Distance Telephone, who gets hosed every time someone logs onto Pldt.com, which turns out to be Notquitepldt.com.
Periquet also likes Philippine Long Distance Telephone (nyse: PHI - news - people ), listed on the New York Stock Exchange as an American Depositary Receipt.
He says that around 250 people come to his cabina each day - with most of those coming in the middle of the night to make long distance telephone calls.
More arrogant yet, the FCC is ticked off at the long distance telephone companies for breaking out this charge on their monthly phone bills instead of burying it in their other fees.
An indication of their influence is the key roles they played in effecting a major management revamp of two of the country's largest corporations: Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT) and Philippine Airlines (PAL).
Buried in the 1996 Telecommunications Act is a provision -- put in at the behest of Vice President Gore -- that the Federal Communications Commission has interpreted as giving it the right to impose a special tax on long distance telephone customers.
There are sound reasons why long-distance telephone, television and Internet long ago moved from satellites to terrestrial microwave and then fiber optic.
He focused on areas that had been deregulated, leasing equipment and selling long-distance telephone services.
The accounting fraud drove America's second-largest long-distance telephone company into Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
This partly reflects the emergence of long-distance telephone plans that no longer charged per minute but rather used a fixed fee.
Likewise, traditional local and long-distance telephone service over the copper network is being displaced by better technology from cable and fiber.
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Comcast is going to adapt unless the pay TV business crumbles the way long-distance telephone did becoming something no one would pay for at all.
The Hartford Stock Exchange is an example of why: It closed in 1935, within months of the opening of long-distance telephone lines between that Connecticut city and New York.
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In turn, the utility can offer its ratepayers a package of some two dozen consumer services, including Internet access, appliance protection, satellite television, long-distance telephone service, carbon-monoxide protection and security.
Buried in the 1996 Telecommunications Act is a provision -- put in at the behest of Vice President Gore -- that the Federal Communications Commission has interpreted as giving it the right to impose a special tax on long- distance telephone customers.
WorldCom and Sprint are the Number 2 and Number 3 US long-distance telephone companies respectively, and the US government is worried that the two companies already compete in the same areas and that US telecoms industry would be left with only two main competitors.
It forthrightly refused to recognize that the Internet was obliterating traditional barriers between long-distance and local telephone calls and between telephony, TV, radio and cable.
The telephone enabled long-distance communication in real time.
The flagship Titan 5500, introduced in 1991, came just at the cusp of a huge capital spending boom from the U.S.' regional Bell telephone companies and long-distance carriers.
Some of those users keep the Internet telephone as a backup, or use it just for long distance.
Instead of tracking the cost of a long-distance phone call, for example, the new classification simply tracks the cost of telephone services.
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