Re: Here in Manila
PLDT is a big player in just about everything communications-related in the Philippines based on what I've studied recently. They're pretty much it for terrestrial copper (read: landline telephone) access...IF you can get it.
Everything else is pretty much oligopolies with PLDT one of the members. PLDT owns Smart, meaning they're the #1 cell phone provider. Between them and Globe, they probably provide nearly all the cell phone service in the Philippines. I believe #3 is Sun (owned by ABS-CBN, IINM the country's biggest television network and media company).
For satellite it's down pretty much a duopoly between Cignal (owned by PLDT) and Sky (owned by the aforementioned ABS-CBN).
Biting the hand that feeds IT
