Mobile phone penetration rate in the Philippines hit 75 percent as of end-2008, as the number of subscriber identity module, or SIM cards, sold by the country’s top three operators reached 67.9 million.
Napoleon Nazareno, president of Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co., which owns the Smart and Talk ’N Text mobile brands, said that subscriber take-up this year would be slower than the previous years, as the penetration rate already topped 75 percent.
Ferdinand dela Cruz, head of Globe Telecom’s consumer wireless business group, also estimated the cellular phone penetration rate in the country at about 75 percent of the population as of the fourth quarter of 2008.
The PLDT group said it had 35.2 million subscribers as of December, including 20.9 million Smart subscribers and 14.3 million Talk ’N Text subscribers.
Globe Telecom said it had a total subscriber base of 24.7 million, including both Globe and Touch Mobile subscribers.
In a recent disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange, the third player in the mobile phone industry, Digital Telecommunications of the Gokongwei group, said it had more than eight million subscribers under the Sun Cellular network.–Roderick T. dela Cruz, Manila Standard Today
June 2025
Philippine Environment Month!
“Action for Nature, for the Future!”
Invoke Article 33 of the ILO Constitution
against the military junta in Myanmar
to carry out the 2021 ILO Commission of Inquiry recommendations
against serious violations of
Forced Labour and Freedom of Association protocols.
Accept National Unity Government (NUG)
of Myanmar. Reject Military!
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Monthly Observances:
1 Jun – World Day of Parents
5 Jun – World Environment Day
7 Jun – World Food Safety Day
8 Jun – World Oceans Day
12 Jun – World Day Against Child Labour
15 Jun – World Elder Abuse Awareness Day
16 Jun – International Day of Family Remittances
17 Jun – World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought
20 Jun – World Refugee Day
25 Jun – Day of the Seafarer
27 Jun – Micro-, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises Day
Daily Observances:
June 6: Migrant Workers Day
June 19: Filipino Youth Day
June 25: Day of the Filipino Seafarer
