BAYAN Telecommunications is projecting an explosion in subscriber base for wireless landline as the company plans to roll out the service in several key cities nationwide.

Juan Jose de Jesus, Bayan vice president for marketing, said they are planning to offer wireless landline in Bohol next year to add to existing service connections in Mega Manila, Bicol and Iloilo.

“We are seeing an explosion [of] around 4 million to 5 million subscribers in the next two to three years,” De Jesus told BusinessMirror. At present Bayan has some 150,000 subscribers in this service.

“The logical destination for our expansion is definitely the key cities nationwide,” de Jesus said.

Aside from Cebu, Bayan is eyeing to penetrate Bacolod, Eastern Visayas, Cagayan de Oro City, Butuan City, Gen. Santos City and the Davao region for the service.

“As we go on we will also try to improve on the array of units that we have,” de Jesus said.

The next step would be to introduce mobile phones that carry both landline and GSM SIM (Global System for Mobile communication standard Subscribe Identity Module) packs.

Wireless landline is using CDMA (code division multiple access) technology while most mobile phone units in the market use the European GSM technology.

Abrigo Merin, vice president for Bayan Business, said the company is also laying the groundwork for more business and consumer services including the metro ethernet and bandwidth on demand services.

Merin said bandwidth on demand is important for businesses that see surges in data demand several times in a day.

“The capacity would be there but the payment is based on actual usage,” Merin added.

DIGITAL Telecommunications Phils. Inc. (DIGITEL), the listed phone subsidiary of JG Summit Holdings Inc., is allotting $393 million to expand the network coverage of its mobile-brand unit Sun Cellular.

COA recommends that NTC go after Piltel on fees

THE Commission on Audit (COA) has recommended to the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) to collect from Piltel (Pilipino Telephone Corp.) P492.62 million of unpaid regulatory fees.

A SOUTH Cotabato-based firm is investing P100 million to make animal feeds that will supply the Mindanao area and carry the B-Meg brand of San Miguel Foods Inc.

GLOBAL remittance company iRemit Inc. reported Monday that remittance volume grew 59 percent in the first two months of the year to $155 million from $97 million a year earlier.

From a loss of P206 million in 2007, Lepanto Consolidated Mining Co. expects a turn-around this year and sees a net income of P200 million because its old copper reserve will resume operations.

BAYAN Telecommunications is projecting an explosion in subscriber base for wireless landline as the company plans to roll out the service in several key cities nationwide.

IT maybe about time for “mediabetic” politicians to just focus their energy in the more efficient use of their several-million peso pork barrel renamed countryside development fund instead of spreading dirt and destructive criticisms through the media.