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DIGITEL Total Reallocation Project
, approximately 95, 000 lines
DIGITEL NX2 Priority 2 Switching Implementation
Project
, approximately 200,000 lines
DIGITEL NX2 Priority 1 Switching Implementation
Project
, approximately 400, 000 lines
DIGITEL 2nd International Gateway
facility , in Quezon Ciry
About
DIGITEL
Digital
Telecommunications Phils., Inc. (DIGITEL) has the
largest fixed-line network and is the largest provider of
telecommunications services to telephone subscribers and
prepaid card users in Luzon outside of Metro Manila.
Established in 1987, DIGITEL was granted a franchise in 1994
to provide domestic and international telecommunications
services throughout the Philippines.
Through 459
regional and local exchanges, DIGITEL telephones are now
available in 228 towns and cities throughout Luzon. As of
December 31, 1998, DIGITEL had a total of 484,036 lines
system-wide.
Its
fully-digital telecommunications facilities include a
Luzon-wide "backbone" (long distance) transmission
system consisting of radio stations and fiber optic cables,
a transit exchange with interconnections with other
operators in Metro Manila and an international gateway
facility (IGF), made up of two IGF switches located in
Binalonan, Pangasinan and in Quezon City, which provides
instant connectivity to more than 200 international
destinations. With DIGITEL�s participation in the National
Digital Transmission Network (NDTN) undertaken by the
Telecoms Infrastructure Corp. of the Philippines (TelicPhil),
the Luzon-wide "backbone" transmission facility
now extends to the Visayas and Mindanao. In addition, the
Company owns submarine cable capacities in the Trans-Pacific
Cable-5 (TPC-5), the Asia-Pacific Cable Network (APCN), and
the Southeast Asia-Middle East-Western Europe (SEA-ME-WE)
cable systems. It also purchased capacities from the
China-United States cable systems and the Guam-Philippines
cable systems.
At the retail
level, DIGITEL provides local metered service as well as
domestic and international long distance services to
individual subscribers both for outbound and inbound calls.
At the wholesale level, other telephone companies and
private enterprises utilize DIGITEL�s inter-exchange and
IGF facilities, in effect becoming customers of the Company.
DIGITEL now counts companies in the manufacturing, trading,
banking, utilities, hotel and real estate sectors among its
corporate subscribers.
To provide
customers with optimum reach, DIGITEL has interconnected its
network with several national carriers. Additional
interconnection agreements are being negotiated by DIGITEL
to enable customers to enjoy direct access to all telephone
subscribers in the Philippines.
JG Summit
Holdings, Inc., one of the largest and most diversified
business conglomerates in the Philippines, owns a major
stake in DIGITEL. Telia AB of Sweden, a global player in
telecommunications, is DIGITEL�s strategic partner.
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