"That's no beer."
"It's a space station bottle of piss." </BestAlecGuinnessVoice>
An attempt by Filipino giant San Miguel Corporation to create a mobile phone business has gone flat. San Miguel is best known as brewer of a beer* bearing its name, but also build infrastructure, generates electricity and refines oil. The latter activities reflect its desire to diversify and grow, an ambition that last year …
Probably. Beer makes complicated things simple and simple things complicated.
See also: Schnapsidee.
Reportedly San Miguel has 90 per cent of the allocated 700MHz band which was to be used with the Telstra hookup.
The other big two, Globe and Smart are moaning that they want some more of this band to increase the range of their cells.
Les in Manila